2010/8/10 Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org>: > Benjamin Peterson writes: > > 2010/8/9 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:10 AM, alexander.belopolsky > > > <python-check...@python.org> wrote: > > >> +PS: In the standard Python distribution, this file is encoded > > >> in UTF-8 +and the list is in rough alphabetical order by last > > >> names. > > >> > > >> David Abrahams > > >> Jim Ahlstrom > > >> @@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ > > >> Éric Araujo > > >> Jason Asbahr > > >> David Ascher > > >> +Peter Åstrand > > > From my recollection of the discussion when Peter was added, the > > > >first > > > character in his last name actually sorts after Z (despite its > > > resemblance to an A). > > This is correct. Don't think of Å as a kind of "A". It's its own > > letter, which sorts after Z in Swedish. > > That's true, but IIRC there are a fairly large number of letters where > different languages collate them in different positions. > > Is it worth actually asking appropriate humans to think about this, or > would it be better to use Unicode code point order for simplicity?
I think it's largely a unimportant discussion. If people have an opinion of where their name should appear, they can by all means change it. However, "rough" is probably as best as it'll ever get. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
