Custom alphabetical sort

[Pander Musubi]

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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.