1. Code pages are character sets used by computer applications, with different code pages for different languages or language groups. See the previous article in this series for more information.
2. These examples were taken from the browse display of the MELVYL catalog, which uses Ex Libris' Aleph software, http://melvyl.cdlib.org.
3. This illustrates how difficult it is to define the language of an individual heading, and that the language of a heading, such as for an English language work of literary criticism entitled “Les Misérables,” can be different from the language of the work.
4. Unicode Collation Algorithm, Unicode Technical Standard #10. http://www/unicode.org/reports/tr10/ (Accessed September 19, 2005).
5. The term “alphabet” itself implies an order and derives from “alpha beta,” the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. See: Logan, Robert K. The Alphabet Effect; The Impact of the Phonetic Alphabet on the Development of Western Civilization. New York, Morrow, 1986.