> I am not 100% happy with this because I am sure people will keep > discovering that the order in the file does not match the order > suggested by their favorite sort program. I was also hoping to learn > from this discussion what the state of the art in in sorting unicode > words is. I believe this issue is addressed by some obscure parts of > the unicode standard, but I am not familiar with them.
Actually, it's not. Rather, Unicode acknowledges that collation depends on the locale, see http://unicode.org/reports/tr10/ Of course, it would be possible to follow the Default Unicode Collation Element Table (DUCET). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
