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

Xavier Morel catch-all at masklinn.net
Sat Nov 12 16:45:14 CET 2011

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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