On 7/14/2011 2:34, Warp wrote:
> Someone explained it to me, but I can't remember it now.

It is essentially sorted by how you write the character. Not the final 
shape, but how you write it.

So first come all characters with a single stroke, vertical strokes before 
horizontal strokes. Then all characters with two strokes, again vertical 
sorting before horizontal. Etc.  (Uh, approximately like that. Don't go 
taking this post as authoritative, as I'm doing it from memory.)

If you know how to read Chinese but not write it, you have a very hard time 
looking something up.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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