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An alphabet usually has a conventional order of letters. Alphabetical order of words and phrases is based on this order in combination with the principle of lexicographical order.
A blank space is treated as a character that comes before the letters.
Conventions may vary where to position digits and special characters.
A common order is:
- blank space
- symbols
- digits
- letters
A more advanced system may consider numbers as such instead of just considering the digits; in that case 100 does not come between 10 and 11, but after 11. This can be extended to Roman numerals.
However, if a number is spelled out it is treated as a word.
For example:
- $2.99
- 2 dollars 99 cents
- 2.99
- two dollars 99 cents
Normally capitals and lowercase letters have the same position. On computer systems sometimes a crude system is used, e.g. based on ASCII order. In that case "a" comes after "Z", see e.g. [1] (http://tokipona.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Allpages&from=AEI_pi_toki_pona).
The Alphabetical order varies with the language involved. Languages other than English do have different
criteria on what word comes before or after another.
- See Wikipedia:Alphabetical order for the usage of "Alphabetical order" in Wikipedia.
fr:Classement alphabétique
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