unicode and ZCTextIndex, WAS:RE: [Zope] strange unicode behaviour

[Chris Withers]

Toby Dickenson wrote:
>>>BTrees need their keys to have a total ordering.
>>
>>Why would they not have that if the keys are nto all of the same type?
> 
> BTrees require that they can compare their keys for order. Historically, 
> breaking this requirement could corrupt things severly and silently. Today it 
> isnt silent.

Boo! Hiss! I thought you could always compare object in python and have some 
kindof meaningful result returned?

Chris