2010/8/10 Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>: > On 8/10/2010 9:13 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >> >> 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. > > If I were committing a patch and was checking to see whether a name that > started with a decorated A (or any other letter) were already in the list, I > would look in the appropriate place in the A (or other) section, not after > Z. > > Everyone working on the English-based Python distribution knows the order of > the 26 English letters. Please use that order (including for decorated > versions and tranliterations) instead of various idiosyncratic and possibly > conflicting nationality-based rules. > > For instance, suppose a 'Jean Charbol' posts a patch? Should we really have > to ask his/her 'nationality' before adding the name to the list?
No, but if he complains about it, we should change it. > Librarians who filed author cards by birth nationality rules made the > now-obsolete card catalogs less useful for users who not know both birth > nationality and rule. Lets not repeat that mistake. How often are people trying to search through Misc/ACKS, though? -- 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
