Re: [Maposmatic-dev] [PATCH maposmatic] Sort available countries in alphabetical order

[Maxime Petazzoni]

H,

* David MENTRE <address@hidden> [2010-02-10 20:02:42]:

> 2010/2/10 David MENTRE <address@hidden>:
> > I'll look at it. No guarantee though.
> 
> Ok, I could not found any specific Python function to do the correct
> compare. Maybe I have overlooked something, let me know.

After a bit of research, it looks like Python can't correctly compare
unicode strings because it does order-based comparison instead of using
a UCA (Unicode Collation Algorithm, http://unicode.org/reports/tr10/).

There doesn't seem to be an easy-to-use, packaged Python UCA, and Django
doesn't seem to be of any help here either.

> A simple solution would probably to go back to the old list and sort
> it manually.

I think it's good enough for now. Especially since the ordering is
actually language-dependant, we won't be able to provide a correctly
sorted list anyways.

- Maxime
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Maxime Petazzoni <http://www.bulix.org>
 ``One by one, the penguins took away my sanity.''
Linux kernel and software developer at MontaVista Software

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