On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: .. > 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. >
I believe, the golden standard for this type of works can be found in the index pages of The Art of Computer Programming, http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/help.html#exotic It would be quite an effort to redo Misc/ACKS in that way, and even with ASCII transliteration of every name, there is still ambiguity: is "Van Rossum" sorted under "V", or under "R"? (See http://www.python.org/~guido/ for an answer.) Since it is apparent that no formal rule can be agreed upon, I think best effort "rough alphabetical" order is just fine. BTW, what is Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis' last name? :-) _______________________________________________ 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
