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Flags of certain countries at the Élysée Palace in Paris for a peace conference regarding Libya, 2011. The national flags (other than that of the host, France) are arranged in French alphabetical order: Allemagne, Belgique, Canada, Danemark, Émirats Arabes Unis, Espagne, États-Unis, Grèce, Irak, Italie, Jordanie, Maroc, Norvège, Pays-Bas, Pologne, Qatar, Royaume-Uni.
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Phoenician 12th c. BCE . Paleo-Hebrew 10th c. BCE . Samaritan 6th c. BCE; Aramaic 8th c. BCE . Kharosthi 3rd c. BCE; Brahmi 3rd c. BCE ()Pallava 4th century . Cham 4th century; Dhives Akuru 6th century
The alphabetical order used by Wikipedia is based on the Unicode order and corresponds to American Standard Code for Information Interchange.. Blank spaces between words in a page name are treated as an underscore "_", and are therefore ordered after upper case letters and before lower case letters.
A book on filing rules from 1918 gives an example showing Mc and M' treated as abbreviations, i.e. for Mac, and ordered as if in the expanded version; [5] and a similar book from 1922 makes the rule one of a number that apply also to St. (Saint) and Mrs. (Mistress).
Only the initial article is ignored in alphabetization. Subsequent articles would be considered in alphabetizing, for example, a title. As for the titles Mr., Dr., etc., they are generally not spelled out in alphabetizing, though this question is obscure enough that the rule might vary from one organization to another.
In mathematics, the lexicographic or lexicographical order (also known as lexical order, or dictionary order) is a generalization of the alphabetical order of the dictionaries to sequences of ordered symbols or, more generally, of elements of a totally ordered set.
Z and z should be treated identically, and for non-standard characters, either standard English alphabetizing rules are used – O, Ö, and Ô are identical, for instance – or language-specific order is used (thus, since in Finnish "Å" comes after "Z", this order could be used in a list about Finnish entities); this choice is at the ...