Sorting of Chinese song titles in Karaoke books

From: Charles Belov (docorbit_at_invalid.invalid)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:18:44 GMT

I was at a multilingual karaoke place in the San Francisco Bay Area, and
decided to take a look at the Chinese song book. I know just about 300
characters of Chinese, not enough to even be dangerous, but I noticed a
few things about the sorting sequence of the titles.

- The primary sort is on the number of words in the song title.

- Within that primary sort:

1) Titles beginning with an English word come first
2) Titles beginning with a Chinese numeral come next in numerical order
from first word to last word, that is

11
1x
21
22
2x
where 1 above is actually the Chinese character for the number 1--they
print the Chinese character in the book--x is a non-numeric Chinese word

3) Everything else comes last.

I note in the Unicode CJK Unified Ideograph code block, the Chinese
character for 1 does indeed come first, but it is not immediately
followed by the Chinese character for 2.

I'm guessing there is some standard way of sorting the "everything
else," and my query to anyone who uses Chines karaoke song lists is
"What is that sequence?"

Charles Belov

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