> > > > > > I'm assuming that doesn't correspond to some standard locale's collating > > > > order, so we really do need to roll our own encoding (and that you have > > > > a good reason for wanting to do this). > > > > > > It is for creating a Dutch dictionary. > > > > Wait a minute. You're telling me that Python, of all languages, doesn't > > have a built-in way to sort Dutch words???
Not when you want Roman characters with diacritics to be sorted in the normal a-Z range. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list