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Subject: RE: xsl:number
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:51:46 -0000
> I think having xsl:number open to arbitrary reinterpretation 
> on the basis of the locale would be a serious error: there 
> would need to be some way to specify up front which sequence 
> is to be used.
> 
> So far as I am aware, ordered lists which use alphabetic 
> labels in non-English Latin-alphabet languages never use 
> diacriticals (but I'm happy to be corrected).

You're probably right; but I've seen relatively-recently published works
in German that omit the letter J in an ordered list.

Michael Kay


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