[Tutor] sort() method and non-ASCII

[boB Stepp]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2017, at 22:52, boB Stepp wrote:
>> Does the list sort() method (and other sort methods in Python) just go
>> by the hex value assigned to each symbol to determine sort order in
>> whichever Unicode encoding chart is being implemented?
>
> By default. You need key=locale.strxfrm to make it do anything more
> sophisticated.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "whichever unicode encoding chart". Python
> 3 strings are unicode-unicode, not UTF-8.

As I said in my response to Steve just now:  I was looking at
http://unicode.org/charts/  Because they called them charts, so did I.
I'm assuming that despite this organization into charts, each and
every character in each chart has its own unique hexadecimal code to
designate each character.


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boB