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Re: Custom alphabetical sort

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> > > I'm assuming that doesn't correspond to some standard locale's collating 
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> > > order, so we really do need to roll our own encoding (and that you have 
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> > > a good reason for wanting to do this).
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> > It is for creating a Dutch dictionary.
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> Wait a minute.  You're telling me that Python, of all languages, doesn't 
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> have a built-in way to sort Dutch words???

Not when you want Roman characters with diacritics to be sorted in the normal a-Z range.

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Re: Custom alphabetical sort Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-12-24 11:18 -0500
  Re: Custom alphabetical sort Pander Musubi <pander.musubi@gmail.com> - 2012-12-24 08:40 -0800
    Re: Custom alphabetical sort Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-12-24 12:40 -0500
      Re: Custom alphabetical sort Pander Musubi <pander.musubi@gmail.com> - 2012-12-24 09:53 -0800
      Re: Custom alphabetical sort Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-12-24 18:07 +0000
  Re: Custom alphabetical sort Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2012-12-24 18:12 +0000
    Re: Custom alphabetical sort Pander Musubi <pander.musubi@gmail.com> - 2012-12-24 15:19 -0800
      Re: Custom alphabetical sort Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-12-25 01:18 -0500
      Re: Custom alphabetical sort Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2012-12-27 01:13 +0000
    Re: Custom alphabetical sort Pander Musubi <pander.musubi@gmail.com> - 2012-12-24 15:19 -0800
  Re: Custom alphabetical sort Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-24 22:57 +0000

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