[Python-checkins] r68335 - peps/trunk/pep0/pep.py

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:55 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Well, collation is a bottomless pit. To start with: how should you
> collate non-English letters in an English document? Whether or not
> ö collates like o depends on the language - in German, it does
> (mostly, sometimes like oe); in Swedish (IIUC), it comes after the
> rest of the alphabet. I think the objective is to sort me before
> Tony Lownds - which is nice, but I wouldn't complain if it was
> otherwise (and also to sort Walter Dörwald before Fred Drake)
>
> Wrt. your approach: fortunately, Atsuo Ishimoto, Jiwon Seo, Oren Tirosh,
> Moshe Zadka, Huaiyu  Zhu (and a few other I probably didn't recognize)
> don't insist on having their names correctly spelled. Otherwise,
> this normalization would give an empty string for them.

For the moment, I think I'd like to stick with the current "fix". It's
the simplest tool for the job, and I don't really want to dive into
the dangerous waters of normalization quite yet. If more cases need to
be fixed in the future, I will reconsider.



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Regards,
Benjamin