Japanese sort order in indexes

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:56:15 -0400, Celine Deguire 
<celdeguire at gmail.com> wrote:

>I would like to know how to define the Japanese 
>sort order in FrameMaker 8.

The problem with Japanese is that it is not sorted
by the Unicode character order of the displayed
glyphs (which are usually katakana).  Instead, it 
is sorted according to the pronunciation of the
words, as given in a different script, kanji.
The software has no idea what the kanji is, so
you have to provide it by the usual Frame sort
order method, in []s for every single index entry.
Naturally this requires a Japanese native speaker.

Once you have all the kanji, and have the Japanese
version of the SortOrderIX entry on the index
reference page, you should be good to go.  If you 
can't find the kanji sort order, let me know and
I'll dig through archives here for one we used
while testing.

HTH!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/