[Python-Dev] order of Misc/ACKS (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Nov 11 11:59:33 CET 2011

Am 11.11.2011 10:56, schrieb Ezio Melotti:

Hi,

On 11/11/2011 10.39, Eli Bendersky wrote: The PS: at the top of Misc/ACKS says:

PS: In the standard Python distribution, this file is encoded in UTF-8 and the list is in rough alphabetical order by last names. However, the last 3 names in the list don't appear to be part of that alphabetical order. Is this somehow intentional, or just a mistake? Only the last two are out of place, and should be fixed. The 'Å' in "Peter Åstrand" sorts after 'Z'. See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-August/102961.html for a discussion about the order of Misc/ACKS.

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.

Regards, Martin

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