[texhax] Sorting index

[Henrik Frisk]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Michael Doob <mdoob at ccu.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 September 2008 2:08 pm, Henrik Frisk wrote:
>> 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)
>
> I'm on a unix machine that understands LC_COLLATE. I'm not sure if
> xetex is aware of this environmental variable. Anyone out there know?
>
Right, I see what you mean, of course. This would be interesting to know.

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