Custom alphabetical sort

[Roy Smith]

In article <46db479a-d16f-4f64-aaf2-76de654185da at googlegroups.com>,
 Pander Musubi <pander.musubi at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm assuming that doesn't correspond to some standard locale's collating 
> > order, so we really do need to roll our own encoding (and that you have 
> > a good reason for wanting to do this).
> 
> It is for creating a Dutch dictionary.

Wait a minute.  You're telling me that Python, of all languages, doesn't 
have a built-in way to sort Dutch words???