Bogus locales on Mac
Michael Hudson
mwh at python.net
Thu Jul 15 07:18:03 EDT 2004
Ellen Herzfeld <xlii at xlii.supprimer.org> writes:
[snip]
> Has anyone using a Mac managed to sort accented strings correctly?
>
> The Mac has mostly tried to be quite international so I'm surprised at
> this. Have I missed something?
I suspect using some other method than the C libraries locale
functions is necessary... something like CFStringCompare? Dunno if
Python wraps that, though. Or maybe use PyObjC and NSSting's
-compare:options:range:locale: method.
HTH,
mwh
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