[Classweb-users] ø in LCSH

[Paul G Weiss]

You are correct.  The software developer for Class Web explains this as
follows:

"The sorting sequence used by ClassWeb conforms to the Unicode standard
as 
implemented by IBM in their International Components for Unicode (ICU)

library (the software used for character handling in ClassWeb). In
Unicode, 
Scandinavian o (o with a slash) is not treated as the letter o with a 
diacritical slash mark but as a completely separate letter that sorts 
between the Latin letters o and p."

Paul Weiss
Library of Congress
Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate
Policy and Standards Division

>>> "Clint Wrede" <clint.wrede at uni.edu> 12/1/2009 1:48 PM >>>
In Class Web's LCSH, the character ø ("slashed o" or "o with stroke,"
used
in Scandinavian languages) alphabetizes separately from a standard o
and
after z. For example, do a subject heading browse for the word
"sozusa," and
note the headings that come immediately after that one. In the printed
volumes of LCSH, headings beginning with "so" and "sø" are intermixed.

Thanks for your attention,

Clint Wrede
Catalog Librarian and Bibliographer
Rod Library
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa






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