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It is also applied in areas such as voter registration, where Mac and Mc names may be sorted together in a listing. [2] Technically this is a convention in collation . On the other hand, ASCII is a computer standard and its corresponding sorting is gradually replacing this exception to ordinary alphabetisation .
Also note, if you are putting the names alphabetically, M', Mc and Mac are sorted together and come before Mad. Gwinva 00:06, 5 August 2009 (UTC) To back up the above with a citation, the Oxford Guide to Style (p. 103) "However spelt, any name so prefixed is treated as Mac in alphabetical arrangement.
The prefixes M and Mc in Irish and Scottish surnames are abbreviations for Mac and are sometimes alphabetized as if the spelling is Mac in full. Thus McKinley might be listed before Mackintosh (as it would be if it had been spelled out as "MacKinley"). Since the advent of computer-sorted lists, this type of alphabetization is less frequently ...
There is also a traditional convention in English that surnames beginning Mc and M' are listed as if those prefixes were written Mac. Strings that represent personal names will often be listed by alphabetical order of surname, even if the given name comes first. For example, Juan Hernandes and Brian O'Leary should be sorted as "Hernandes, Juan ...
Both Mac and Mc are sometimes written M ac and M c (with superscript ac or c). Mc is pronounced Mac . Ni , Nic – ( Irish ) "daughter of", from Irish "iníon" meaning "daughter" [ 4 ]
The other Mc/Mac names can be sorted differently from the other M names automatically because they are "Mc" and "Mac", which would be different from "Morris" -- "simply continuing" a practice because "most people are familiar and comfortable with" is another way of saying "we've always done it that way" which, of course, never makes it right.--
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The message and the MAC tag are then sent to the receiver. The receiver in turn runs the message portion of the transmission through the same MAC algorithm using the same key, producing a second MAC data tag. The receiver then compares the first MAC tag received in the transmission to the second generated MAC tag.