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Re: Portable locale usage

Date 2011-09-07 15:15 +0200
From Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de>
Subject Re: Portable locale usage
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On 07/09/11 12:39, ssegvic wrote:
> On 6 ruj, 17:53, Thomas Jollans <t...@jollybox.de> wrote:
>> On 06/09/11 16:46, ssegvic wrote:
>>
>>> For the moment, I only wish to properly sort a Croatian text file
>>> both on Windows and Linux (I am a cautious guy, I like reachable
>>> goals).
>>> When the locale is properly set, sorting works like a charm
>>> with mylist.sort(key=locale.strxfrm).
>>
>> The problem with that is of course that a Croatian locale has to be
>> installed. Many Linux systems don't have locales that aren't used.
> 
> It appears we did not understand each other completely.

Yes we did. I was just pointing out that your code wouldn't be portable
to systems that don't have that specific locale.

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Portable locale usage ssegvic <sinisa.segvic@fer.hr> - 2011-09-06 02:59 -0700
  Re: Portable locale usage Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-09-06 13:16 +0200
    Re: Portable locale usage ssegvic <sinisa.segvic@fer.hr> - 2011-09-06 07:46 -0700
      Re: Portable locale usage Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-09-06 17:53 +0200
        Re: Portable locale usage ssegvic <sinisa.segvic@fer.hr> - 2011-09-07 03:39 -0700
          Re: Portable locale usage Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-09-07 15:15 +0200
        Re: Portable locale usage ssegvic <sinisa.segvic@fer.hr> - 2011-09-07 04:17 -0700
    Re: Portable locale usage garabik-news-2005-05@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk - 2011-09-06 20:58 +0000
      Re: Portable locale usage ssegvic <sinisa.segvic@fer.hr> - 2011-09-07 04:02 -0700
  Re: Portable locale usage Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2011-09-06 15:13 +0200
    Re: Portable locale usage ssegvic <sinisa.segvic@fer.hr> - 2011-09-06 08:31 -0700

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