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' |