On 2011-11-12, at 10:24 , Georg Brandl wrote:
> 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.
The file could use the default collation order, that way it'd be incorrectly
sorted for everybody.
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