Excerpts from H. Hirzel's message of 2015-12-07 21:52:09 +0100:
> According to http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/27/collation/de.html the German
> phonebook sort order is
> 
> a A ä Ä ą̈ Ą̈ ǟ Ǟ ạ̈ Ạ̈ ḁ̈ Ḁ̈ b B c C d D e E f F g G h H i I j J k K
> l L m M n N o O ö Ö ǫ̈ Ǫ̈ ȫ Ȫ ơ̈ Ơ̈ ợ̈ Ợ̈ ọ̈ Ọ̈ p P q Q r R s S ss ß t
> T u U ü Ü ǘ Ǘ ǜ Ǜ ǚ Ǚ ų̈ Ų̈ ǖ Ǖ ư̈ Ư̈ ự̈ Ự̈ ụ̈ Ụ̈ ṳ̈ Ṳ̈ ṷ̈ Ṷ̈ ṵ̈ Ṵ̈ v
> V w W x X y Y z Z
> 
> I wonder why it looks like this. A lot of characters which never
> appear in a German text.

but they might appear in names in a german phonebook (or any other list of names)

greetings, martin.

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