On 2011-11-12, at 10:24 , Georg Brandl wrote: > Am 12.11.2011 08:03, schrieb Stephen J. Turnbull: >> Eli Bendersky writes: >> >>> special locale. It makes me wonder whether it's possible to have a >>> contradiction in the ordering, i.e. have a set of names that just >>> can't be sorted in any order acceptable by everyone. >> >> Yes, it is. The examples were already given in this thread. The >> Han-using languages also have this problem, and Japanese is >> nondetermistic all by itself (there are kanji names which for >> historical reasons are pronounced in several different ways, and >> therefore cannot be placed in phonetic order without additional >> information). >> >> The sensible thing is to just sort in Unicode code point order, I >> think. > > The sensible thing is to accept that there is no solution, and to stop > worrying. The file could use the default collation order, that way it'd be incorrectly sorted for everybody.
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