Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-11 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:25:52 -0400 Terry Reedy wrote: > > Everyone working on the English-based Python distribution knows the > order of the 26 English letters. How does that solve anything? I just had to decide whether “Jason V. Miller” had to come before or after “Jay T. Miller” ('Jason' < '

Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-11 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: .. > > BTW, does anybody know if > > Jiba = Jean-Baptiste LAMY ("Jiba")? Yes that's it. He work on Soya 3d ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-10 Thread Terry Reedy
On 8/10/2010 6:29 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: If I were committing a patch and was checking to see whether a name that started with a decorated A (or any other letter) were already in the list, I would look in the appropriate place in the A (or other) section, not after Z. Everyone working on

Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-10 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:50 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: .. >> or Александр Белопольский for that matter? :-) > > If you care about that, feel free to add that spelling to the file. > Somebody proposed to put it along with some latin transliteration, > which I can sympathize with. > That was Dona

Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 11.08.2010 00:35, schrieb Alexander Belopolsky: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:29 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > .. >> So where do you put Γεώργιος Μπουτσιούκης? >> > > or Александр Белопольский for that matter? :-) If you care about that, feel free to add that spelling to the file. Somebody pro

Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-10 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:29 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > .. >> So where do you put Γεώργιος Μπουτσιούκης? >> > > or Александр Белопольский for that matter? :-) James Tauber did a UCA implementation in Python it seems: http://jtau

Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-10 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:29 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: .. > So where do you put Γεώργιος Μπουτσιούκης? > or Александр Белопольский for that matter? :-) ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-d

Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> If I were committing a patch and was checking to see whether a name that > started with a decorated A (or any other letter) were already in the > list, I would look in the appropriate place in the A (or other) section, > not after Z. > > Everyone working on the English-based Python distribution

Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-10 Thread Terry Reedy
On 8/10/2010 3:44 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: No, but if he complains about it, we should change it. If "In rough English alphabetical order" is extended with "unless the person requests otherwise", then it should also be extended with "in which case the name is suffixed with '(phbr)' [or s

Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-10 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: .. > If I were committing a patch and was checking to see whether a name that > started with a decorated A (or any other letter) were already in the list, I > would look in the appropriate place in the A (or other) section, not after > Z. > > Eve

Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-10 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2010/8/10 Terry Reedy : > On 8/10/2010 9:13 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >> >> 2010/8/10 Stephen J. Turnbull: >>> >>> Benjamin Peterson writes: >>>  >  2010/8/9 Nick Coghlan: >>>  >  >  On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:10 AM, alexander.belopolsky >>>  >  >    wrote: >>>  >  >>  +PS: In the standard Python

Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-10 Thread Terry Reedy
On 8/10/2010 3:25 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: Everyone working on the English-based Python distribution knows the order of the 26 English letters. Please use that order (including for decorated versions and tranliterations) instead of various idiosyncratic and possibly conflicting nationality-based r

Re: [Python-Dev] r83893 - python/branches/release27-maint/Misc/ACKS

2010-08-10 Thread Terry Reedy
On 8/10/2010 9:13 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: 2010/8/10 Stephen J. Turnbull: Benjamin Peterson writes: > 2010/8/9 Nick Coghlan: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:10 AM, alexander.belopolsky > >wrote: > >> +PS: In the standard Python distribution, this file is encoded > >> in U