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"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> But I think there are completely different problems too. Does not some 
> languages sort partly depending the phonetics instead of the spelling?

Yes. In Danish 'aa' is alphabetized according to how it's
pronounced. 

If it is pronounced as two vowels (e.g. ekstraarbejde), it's
alphabetized as two a's. If it is pronounced as one vowel
(e.g. afrikaans) is alphabetized as å (the last letter in the Danish
alphabet).