Sorting Cities and Building a Dictionary
In Version 11, it is possible to sort strings using an alphabetic comparison method defined for each language.
For example, get a group of cities from Denmark.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/sorting-cities-and-building-a-dictionary/In_27.png)
cityNames =
EntityValue[
GeoEntities[
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"Nordjylland", "Denmark"}],
"City"], "Name"];
Now sort these cities using AlphabeticSort but setting the languages separately to Danish and English, to be able to appreciate the differences between them.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/sorting-cities-and-building-a-dictionary/In_28.png)
sortedCityNames =
Transpose[{AlphabeticSort[cityNames, "Danish"],
AlphabeticSort[cityNames, "English"]}];
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![](assets.en/sorting-cities-and-building-a-dictionary/O_18.png)
Create a sorted dictionary translating a random sample of words from Swedish to English.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/sorting-cities-and-building-a-dictionary/In_30.png)
words = AlphabeticSort[
RandomSample[WordList[Language -> "Swedish"], 6], "Swedish"];
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sortedTranslations =
AlphabeticSort[#, "English"] & /@
WordTranslation[words, "Swedish" -> "English"];
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![](assets.en/sorting-cities-and-building-a-dictionary/O_19.png)