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Author pnugues
Recipients ezio.melotti, pnugues, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date 2015-01-09.10:04:04
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In-reply-to <1420793036.01.0.66576315019.issue23196@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Hello Victor,

Thank you for your prompt answer.

> Which order do you expect? What is your OS? Result on Linux (Fedora 21) with the french UTF-8 locale.
You can try this ICU demo http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp?_=el&d_=fr&x=col and paste the list:

Ά
Γ
Η
Κ
Ν
Ο
έ
ί
α
β
γ
δ
ε
ζ
ι
κ
λ
μ
ν
ο
ς
τ
φ
χ
ό
ϐ
Ἀ
ῖ

You will get the same ordering as with Fedora, except the ῖ. It is a variant of i (corresponding to the letter i in Latin character). It should be sorted as an i and not just after Ἀ (the uppercase form of alpha) and before α (alpha).

> 
>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
> 'fr_FR.utf8'
>>>> locale.getlocale(locale.LC_COLLATE)
> ('fr_FR', 'UTF-8')
>>>> sorted(x)
> ['Ά', 'Γ', 'Η', 'Κ', 'Ν', 'Ο', 'έ', 'ί', 'α', 'β', 'γ', 'δ', 'ε', 'ζ', 'ι', 'κ', 'λ', 'μ', 'ν', 'ο', 'ς', 'τ', 'φ', 'χ', 'ό', 'ϐ', 'Ἀ', 'ῖ']
>>>> sorted(x, key=locale.strxfrm)
> ['Ἀ', 'ῖ', 'α', 'Ά', 'β', 'ϐ', 'Γ', 'γ', 'δ', 'ε', 'έ', 'ζ', 'Η', 'ι', 'ί', 'Κ', 'κ', 'λ', 'μ', 'Ν', 'ν', 'Ο', 'ο', 'ό', 'ς', 'τ', 'φ', 'χ']
> 
> I don't speak greek, I don't know which order is expected.
> 
> Anyway, as explained in the issue #23195, Python doesn't implement locale.strxfrm(): it just exposes the system functions. On Linux, locales are implemented in the GNU C library ("libc") for example.
> 
> So I don't see what should be done to "fix" this issue. We are not going to implement locales in Python, use an external library like ICU if you want "better" locales and have a better control on locales.
May be this would be a good idea…

Kindest regards,
Pierre
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