On 19 aug 2007, at 18.50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey Guys, > > Maybe I'm missing something fundamental here, but if I have a list of > Unicode strings, and I want to sort these alphabetically, then it > places those that begin with unicode characters at the bottom. Is > there a way to avoid this, and make it sort them properly? > > I'm sure that this is the "proper way" programatically with character > entities etc. - but when I have a list of countries, and I have Åland > Islands right at the bottom, it just doesn't look right. > > Any help would be really appreciated. > > Thanks, > Oliver > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list That is the correct alfabetic sort order for Åland. The Swedish letters Å , Ä and Ö sorts last in Alphabetic order. ----------------------------------------------------- An astronomer to a colleague: -I can't understsnad how you can go to the brothel as often as you do. Not only is it a filthy habit, but it must cost a lot of money too. -Thats no problem. I've got a big government grant for the study of black holes. Tommy Nordgren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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