2010/8/10 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org>:
Benjamin Peterson writes: > 2010/8/9 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:10 AM, alexander.belopolsky > > <python-checkins@python.org> wrote: > >> +PS: In the standard Python distribution, this file is encoded > >> in UTF-8 +and the list is in rough alphabetical order by last > >> names. > >> > >> David Abrahams > >> Jim Ahlstrom > >> @@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ > >> Éric Araujo > >> Jason Asbahr > >> David Ascher > >> +Peter Åstrand > > From my recollection of the discussion when Peter was added, the > > >first > > character in his last name actually sorts after Z (despite its > > resemblance to an A). > This is correct. Don't think of Å as a kind of "A". It's its own > letter, which sorts after Z in Swedish.
That's true, but IIRC there are a fairly large number of letters where different languages collate them in different positions.
Is it worth actually asking appropriate humans to think about this, or would it be better to use Unicode code point order for simplicity?
I think it's largely a unimportant discussion. If people have an opinion of where their name should appear, they can by all means change it. However, "rough" is probably as best as it'll ever get. -- Regards, Benjamin