Iconitis

[Stuart Gathman]

In article <1936 at dataio.Data-IO.COM>, bright at Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:

> is the lexicographic order? (P.S. How do the Chinese find their icons
> in a dictionary?)

Chinese (and Japanese) icons are constructed from about 200 ideograms.
(Small symbols put together to form a larger one.)

Lexical order is determined by ideogram order which in most cases scans
top to bottom, left to right.  There are a few arcane exceptions, but 
no worse than those in vogue in English library card catalogs.
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Stuart D. Gathman	<stuart at bms-at.uucp>
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