Re: [Gramps-devel] Sorting error without PyICU

[John R. <jr...@ce...>]

On Oct 24, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Doug Blank <dou...@gm...> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:04 PM, John Ralls <jr...@ce...> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I'd go with a bug, but I'm not ready to say where it is.
>> Do you see this on the 3.4 SVN branch as well?
> 
> Yes, I see it on gramps34 and gramps40 without PyICU and Python 2.7
> (various flavors of Ubuntu).

OK, I see the same thing on Debian Jessie and Fedora-18, with both Python-2.7 and 3.3.
I don't think that the problem is in grampslocale.sort_key though. When I try those
names by hand I get the expected result:
john@DebianJessie:~$ python3
Python 3.3.2+ (default, Sep 18 2013, 11:58:01) 
[GCC 4.8.1] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import locale
>>> locale.strxfrm('Blankenship, Laura') < locale.strxfrm('Blank, Frank')
False
>>> 

Perhaps it has to do with gen.display.name.raw_sorted_name()? It's implemented as a 
collection lookup that's a bit opaque without more study than I have time for ATM.

Regards,
John Ralls