Editing Alphabetical order (section)

====Ligatures====
[[Typographic ligature|Ligatures]] (two or more letters merged into one symbol) which are not considered distinct letters, such as [[Æ]] and [[Œ]] in English, are typically collated as if the letters were separate—"æther" and "aether" would be ordered the same relative to all other words. This is true even when the ligature is not purely stylistic, such as in [[loanword]]s and brand names.

Special rules may need to be adopted to sort strings which vary only by whether two letters are joined by a ligature.