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Wed Nov 12 17:13:29 EST 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-November/040211.html

On 11/12/03 9:31 PM +0100 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> That said, locale.strcoll does what you want.

It does?

>>> locale.strcoll(unicode('Universität','utf8'),u'University')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_COLLATE,'en_US')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/locale.py", line 372, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: locale setting not supported

Even if locale would allow me to set a locale, which locale should I set, 
in order to allow all unicodes (not just e.g. iso-8859-1, but all of them) 
to be collated in some reasonable order?

-- 
David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science

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