In follow-up: I think this should work: # -*- coding: utf8 -*- import locale locale.setlocale( locale.LC_ALL, "" )
class Test(object): def __init__(self,nam): self.name = nam def __cmp__(self, other): return cmp(self.name, other.name) l = [ Test("ABILENE.ttf"), Test("Årgate.ttf"), Test("årse.ttf"), Test("Ärt.ttf"), Test("MomentGothic.ttf"), Test("öggi.ttf"), Test("Öhmygawd.ttf")] l.sort( cmp=locale.strcoll, key=lambda obj:obj.name ) for i in l: print i.name Any bugs? \d -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list