On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:42:49AM +0200, Christian Galinski wrote:
> Dear Gérard,
> 
> There is an ISO/TC 37 standard on alphabetisation, which reflect the
> user's point of view in oredering character strings:
> 
> ISO 12199:2000 Alphabetical ordering of multilingual terminological and
> lexicographical data represented in the Latin alphabet
> 
> I may add that there may be other "common ways" of alphabitic ordering,
> such as for telephone directories etc., which do not follow a
> "standardized" way.

There is also an ISO/IEC standard 14651 on ordering the full ISO 10646
(Unicode).

best regards
Keld