> The key point here is that it is *rough* alphabetic order. IMO, sorting > accented characters along with their unaccented versions would be fine > as well, and be more practical. In general, it's not possible to provide > a "correct" alphabetic order. For example, in German, 'ö' sorts after > 'o', whereas in Swedish, it sorts after 'z'. In fact, in German, we have > two different ways of sorting the ö: one is to treat it is a letter > after o, and the other is to treat it as equivalent to oe.
This is really interesting. I guess lexical ordering of alphabet letters is a locale thing, but Misc/ACKS isn't supposed to be any special locale. It makes me wonder whether it's possible to have a contradiction in the ordering, i.e. have a set of names that just can't be sorted in any order acceptable by everyone. We can then call it "the Misc/ACKS incompleteness theorem" ;-) Eli _______________________________________________ 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
