[B-Greek] RE: Frustrated Greek Learner!!! (Alphabeticizing Greek)

Alex and Alison Hopkins alexali at surf.net.au
Wed Sep 8 08:40:29 EDT 2004


Rodney Decker wrote,

>A good database, esp. one that understands Unicode, is a far better
tool for this than Excel. I've found FileMaker to be very well suited
for handling all sorts of Greek-related data--and it runs on both
Windows & Mac. The newest v. 7 which came out this past year also does
Unicode.

Yes, although it was interesting to me that my old code for Excel is
still of some use, I agree with Rod that Excel is not really the right
tool for doing Greek work. My query is, Rod, will Filemaker
alphabeticize the Unicode correctly or not?  In the program I wrote for
my own Greek record-keeping I had to write a routine to handle the
alphabeticization.  In Filemaker, is this done automatically, or does
the user need to write code that will do this, or is the best option to
use a numeric field and sort on the numbers?

Alex Hopkins
Melbourne, Australia





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