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===Treatment of numerals=== {{Main|Lexicographical order}} {{Unreferenced section|date=June 2017}} When some of the strings contain [[Numerical digit|numeral]]s (or other non-letter characters), various approaches are possible. Sometimes such characters are treated as if they came before or after all the letters of the alphabet. Another method is for numbers to be sorted alphabetically as they would be spelled: for example ''[[1776 (film)|1776]]'' would be sorted as if spelled out "seventeen seventy-six", and {{Lang|fr|[[24 heures du Mans]]}} as if spelled "vingt-quatre..." (French for "twenty-four"). When numerals or other symbols are used as special graphical forms of letters, as ''1337'' for [[leet]] or the movie ''[[Seven (1995 film)|Seven]]'' (which was stylised as ''Se7en''), they may be sorted as if they were those letters. [[Natural sort order]] orders strings alphabetically, except that multi-digit numbers are treated as a single character and ordered by the value of the number encoded by the digits. In the case of [[monarch]]s and [[pope]]s, although their numbers are in [[Roman numerals]] and resemble letters, they are normally arranged in numerical order: so, for example, even though V comes after I, the Danish king [[Christian IX of Denmark|Christian IX]] comes after his predecessor [[Christian VIII of Denmark|Christian VIII]].
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