[texhax] Sorting index

[Henrik Frisk]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk> wrote:
> Michael Doob wrote:
>> On Thursday 25 September 2008 5:34 am, Lars Madsen wrote:
>>> Henrik Frisk wrote:
>>>> Hi again,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know how I can have the Index sort names starting with O
>>>> umlaut (Ö) alphabetically correct? Right thes names are put at the top
>>>> of the index which looks quite odd.
>>
>>
>> You could look into using utf-8.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Michael
>>
>
> does makeindex support uft-8?

I just tried it but it doesn't help makeidx *sort* the index
alphabetically correctly. After all there is no language specific
information in utf-8. However, the Scandinavian characters I tried are
correctly rendered in the index with utf-8 (that is, without spelling
them out)

/henrik