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Fri Sep 2 03:30:44 CEST 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-September/113461.html

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

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