New submission from Pierre Nugues:
I am using Unicode regexes in the form of properties: \p{} and these are not
standard in the re module. I have to use the new regex module, which has to be
installed separately.
I would like to see the replacement of re with regex in the future Python
Pierre Nugues added the comment:
Hello David,
This is not the same issue as 23195. I tested the Greek letters on your
interactive console available at Python.org and this is not related to OS X.
The Greek sorting works for all the characters I tested except the ‘ῖ’
character, which
Pierre Nugues added the comment:
Hello Victor,
Thank you for your prompt answer.
Which order do you expect? What is your OS? Result on Linux (Fedora 21) with
the french UTF-8 locale.
You can try this ICU demo
http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp?_=eld_=frx=col and paste the list:
Ά
New submission from Pierre Nugues:
Greek letters are not properly sorted when a locale is set. I tested a French
and a Greek locales. Here is an output obtained from the Python interactive
shell available from the python.org home page:
In [22]: a
Out[22]:
('Ά',
'Γ',
'Η',
'Κ',
'Ν',
'Ο
New submission from Pierre Nugues:
The sorted() function does not work properly with macosx.
Here is a script to reproduce the issue:
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, fr_FR.UTF-8)
a = [A, E, Z, a, e, é, z]
sorted(a)
sorted(a, key=locale.strxfrm)
The execution on MacOsX produces
