[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I know that this topic has been discussed in the past, but I could not
> find a working solution for my problem: sorting (lists of) strings
> containing special characters like "ä", "ü",... (german umlaute).
> Consider the following list:
> l = ["Aber", "Beere", "Ärger"]
>
> For sorting the letter "Ä" is supposed to be treated like "Ae",
> therefore sorting this list should yield
> l = ["Aber, "Ärger", "Beere"]
>
> I know about the module locale and its method strcoll(string1,
> string2), but currently this does not work correctly for me. Consider
> >>> locale.strcoll("Ärger", "Beere")
> 1
>
> Therefore "Ärger" ist sorted after "Beere", which is not correct IMO.
> Can someone help?
>
> Btw: I'm using WinXP (german) and
>>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
> prints
> ('de_DE', 'cp1252')
>
> TIA.
>
> Dierk
>
we tried this in a javascript version and it seems to work sorry for long line
and possible bad translation to Python
#coding: cp1252
def _deSpell(a):
u = a.decode('cp1252')
return
u.replace(u'\u00C4','Ae').replace(u'\u00e4','ae').replace(u'\u00D6','OE').replace(u'\u00f6','oe').replace(u'\u00DC','Ue').replace(u'\u00fc','ue').replace(u'\u00C5','Ao').replace(u'\u00e5','ao')
def deSort(a,b):
return cmp(_deSpell(a),_deSpell(b))
l = ["Aber", "Ärger", "Beere"]
l.sort(deSort)
print l
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