Re: Estonian collation: v ≠ w ?

[Mark Davis ☕️]

It would be better to get confirmation from an Estonian speaker. Sasan
should be able to help with that.


Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>

*— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*


On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Markus Scherer <markus.icu at gmail.com>
wrote:

> CLDR Estonian collation treats v and w as the same letter, with only a
> second-level difference (as between s and ſ [long s]).
>
> http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/6701 says they should be different.
> The Estonian-language sources and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_orthography seem to agree.
>
> W is not a letter of the Estonian alphabet. It is used to write foreign
> words and place names, like "Würzburg".
>
> This seems to be like in Finnish, where the default collation has changed
> away from treating v and w as the same letter.
>
> Anyone opposed?
>
> markus
>
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