At 18:08 +0000 2005-08-19, suzmccarth wrote:

>I also wanted to ask why sorting by column was considered
>the "inherent" sort order for Vai. I do see that once all the rows are
>completed there are similarities down the columns, but I wondered if
>there was any 'native speaker' reason for columns being the inherent
>sort order.

This is explained in the proposal document, N2948R
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2948.pdf
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