From: Charles R. D. <de...@ro...> - 2005-08-22 23:02:52
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Martin Hawlisch wrote: > Hi Charles, > > >>At times the surname page appear as you would normally expect - all the >>A's, all the B's, ... all the Z's. At other times I would get - some of >>the A's, some of the B's, ...some of the Z's, the rest of the A's, the >>rest of the B's, ... the rest of the Z's. I've left an example of this >>on my web site at http://www.dennett.org/genealogy/gramps2/surnames.html. > > > I'm not exactly sure but this behavior sounds like a known bug in Python 2.3 > in regard to locale dependant sorting. This bug does not exist in Python 2.2 > and 2.4 and has been fixed in debian: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321225 > I'm sorry, but I dont know about other distributios (because I use debian). > > As we found out his bug is especially triggered when some special characters > are to be sorted, like the questionmark "?" that you have used as a surname. > As a quick work-around you could try to replace that surname for example to > "Unknown" and see if that fixes the problem. I generated a new web page and saw the problem I described. Then I went to the 5 or 6 individuals who had "?" as a surname and removed the ?. I regenerated the web site and the problem went away. Looks like I've got python 2.3: rpm -qa | grep python gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.6.0-3 rpm-python-4.3.2-21 python-2.3.4-13.1 <-------------I'd say this was it. gnome-python2-2.6.0-3 gnome-python2-gconf-2.6.0-3 python-devel-2.3.4-13.1 gnome-python2-bonobo-2.6.0-3 dbus-python-0.22-10.FC3.2 gnome-python2-gnomevfs-2.6.0-3 libxml2-python-2.6.16-3 gnome-python2-canvas-2.6.0-3 mod_python-3.1.3-5.2 Thanks for the help. Charlie |