Hallvard B Furuseth wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> For sorting the letter "Ä" is supposed to be treated like "Ae", >> therefore sorting this list should yield >> l = ["Aber, "Ärger", "Beere"] > > Are you sure? Maybe I'm thinking of another language, I thought Ä > shold be sorted together with A, but after A if the words are > otherwise equal.
In German, there are some different forms: - the classic sorting for e.g. word lists: umlauts and plain vowels are of same value (like you mentioned): ä = a - name list sorting for e.g. phone books: umlauts have the same value as their substitutes (like Dierk described): ä = ae There are others, too, but those are the most widely used. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #277: Your Flux Capacitor has gone bad. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
