[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project

[Steven D'Aprano]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le jeudi 01 septembre 2011 à 08:45 -0700, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
>> This is definitely thought of as a separate
>> mark added to the e; ë is not a new letter. I have a feeling it's the
>> same way for the French and Germans, but I really don't know.
>> (Antoine? Georg?)
> 
> Indeed, they are not separate "letters" (they are considered the same in
> lexicographic order, and the French alphabet has 26 letters).


On the other hand, the same doesn't necessarily apply to other 
languages. (At least according to Wikipedia.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic#Languages_with_letters_containing_diacritics


-- 
Steven