CTL2 Appendix - List of National-specific Characters

Several functions, e.g. "editDistance (string, string, integer, string, integer)" need to operate with special national characters. These are important especially when sorting items with a defined comparison strength.

The list below shows first the locale and then the list of its national-specific derivatives for each letter. These may be treated either as equal or different characters depending on the comparison strength you define.

CA - Catalan

CZ - Czech

DA - Danish and Norwegian

DE - German

ES - Spanish

ET - Estonian

FI - Finnish

FR - French

HR - Croatian

HU - Hungarian

IS - Icelandic

IT - Italian

LV - Latvian

LT - Lithuanian

PL - Polish

PT - Portuguese

RO - Romanian

RU - Russian

SK - Slovak

SL - Slovenian

SQ - Albanian

SV - Swedish