STINNER Victor added the comment: > The postresq discussion and some earlier Python issues suggest using ICU to > properly implement Unicode functions like collation across all platforms.
In my experience, the locale module is error-prone and not reliable, especially if you want portability. It just uses functions provided by the OS. And the locales (LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGE, etc.) are process-wide which become a major issue if you want to serve different clients using different locales... Windows supports a different locale per thread if I remember correctly. It would be more reliable to use a good library like ICU. You may try: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyICU Link showing how to use PyICU to sort a Python sequence: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11121636/sorting-list-of-string-with-specific-locale-in-python => strings.sort(key=lambda x: collator[loc].getCollationKey(x).getByteArray()) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23195> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
