Pierre Nugues added the comment: Hello Victor,
Thank you for your prompt answer. > Which order do you expect? What is your OS? Result on Linux (Fedora 21) with > the french UTF-8 locale. You can try this ICU demo http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp?_=el&d_=fr&x=col and paste the list: Ά Γ Η Κ Ν Ο έ ί α β γ δ ε ζ ι κ λ μ ν ο ς τ φ χ ό ϐ Ἀ ῖ You will get the same ordering as with Fedora, except the ῖ. It is a variant of i (corresponding to the letter i in Latin character). It should be sorted as an i and not just after Ἀ (the uppercase form of alpha) and before α (alpha). > >>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') > 'fr_FR.utf8' >>>> locale.getlocale(locale.LC_COLLATE) > ('fr_FR', 'UTF-8') >>>> sorted(x) > ['Ά', 'Γ', 'Η', 'Κ', 'Ν', 'Ο', 'έ', 'ί', 'α', 'β', 'γ', 'δ', 'ε', 'ζ', 'ι', > 'κ', 'λ', 'μ', 'ν', 'ο', 'ς', 'τ', 'φ', 'χ', 'ό', 'ϐ', 'Ἀ', 'ῖ'] >>>> sorted(x, key=locale.strxfrm) > ['Ἀ', 'ῖ', 'α', 'Ά', 'β', 'ϐ', 'Γ', 'γ', 'δ', 'ε', 'έ', 'ζ', 'Η', 'ι', 'ί', > 'Κ', 'κ', 'λ', 'μ', 'Ν', 'ν', 'Ο', 'ο', 'ό', 'ς', 'τ', 'φ', 'χ'] > > I don't speak greek, I don't know which order is expected. > > Anyway, as explained in the issue #23195, Python doesn't implement > locale.strxfrm(): it just exposes the system functions. On Linux, locales are > implemented in the GNU C library ("libc") for example. > > So I don't see what should be done to "fix" this issue. We are not going to > implement locales in Python, use an external library like ICU if you want > "better" locales and have a better control on locales. May be this would be a good idea… Kindest regards, Pierre -- Pierre Nugues, Lunds Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för datavetenskap, Box 118, S-221 00 Lund, Suède. Tél. (0046) 46 222 96 40, http://cs.lth.se/pierre_nugues Visiteurs: Lunds Tekniska Högskola, E-huset, rum 4134A, Ole Römers väg 3, S-223 63 Lund. Mon livre/My book: http://ilppp.cs.lth.se (2nd edition, 2014) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23196> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
