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Alphabet

All symbols placed here will be considered parts of words. The order is important, since words will be sorted according to the order of symbols in this list.

E.G. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Note that both capital and small versions of letters are required You can create your own alphabet or select from a pre-defined list of alphabets.

Quasi-Letter Symbols

If you want a symbol, say - , which could form part of a word, then it must be placed with both capital and small letters. Thus:-

E.G. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ-
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-

Codes

The 'codes' placed under each letter determine how it is to be sorted.

E.G. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ-'
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-'
1111111111111111111111111134

0 skip this letter (it will be absent from the vocabulary)
1 sort normally)
2 sort as the previous symbol
3 ignore for the first phase of sorting
4 ditto,add to the current word and terminate the word (French ')
5 ditto,terminate the current word and include in the next word
6 treat as a single symbol 'word'