Am 12.11.2011 08:03, schrieb Stephen J. Turnbull: > Eli Bendersky writes: > > > 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. > > Yes, it is. The examples were already given in this thread. The > Han-using languages also have this problem, and Japanese is > nondetermistic all by itself (there are kanji names which for > historical reasons are pronounced in several different ways, and > therefore cannot be placed in phonetic order without additional > information). > > The sensible thing is to just sort in Unicode code point order, I > think.
The sensible thing is to accept that there is no solution, and to stop worrying. Georg _______________________________________________ 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
