[Zope-dev] Re: RFC: Locale-specific Text Collation

Jim Fulton wrote:

When presenting users with ordered text (e.g. sorted lists of options), simply sorting Unicode strings doesn't provide an ordering that users in a given locale will find useful. Various languages have text sorting conventions that don't agree with the ordering of Unicode code points. (This is even true for English. Generally, users prefer to see text sorted without regard to case.)

A proposal to address this problem is here:

http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/LocaleSpecificTextCollation

Comments are welcome.

+1 I especially like the easy handling of this adapter, given Python 2.4's improved sorting API (that one went totally unnoticed by me up until now!). See http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting for a nice howto. Philipp