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Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-imapext-sort (INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - SORT AND THREAD EXTENSIONS) to Proposed Standard

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Tue, 04 March 2008 10:34 UTC

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Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:32:16 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Mark Crispin <mrc@Washington.EDU>
Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-imapext-sort (INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - SORT AND THREAD EXTENSIONS) to Proposed Standard
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:26:44AM -0800,
 Mark Crispin <mrc@Washington.EDU> wrote 
 a message of 162 lines which said:

> The actual correct collation, assuming(!) surname-first collation and 
> Latin character ordering(!!), is:
...
> due to where the surname is located in various cultures.

Is it a good idea to sort on the ordering of the sender's culture? If
the ordering is to be useful for the human user, it should be
according the receiver's culture, no?

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