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Use ICU to sort words correctly

See original GitHub issue

IUC should be used to correctly sort words according to the target locale:

from icu import Collator, Locale

collator = Collator.createInstance(Locale.getFrance())
# or collator = Collator.createInstance(Locale("fr_FR.UTF-8"))
words = sorted(words, key=collator.getSortKey)

For more details, go see the Miroslav Šedivý - Your Name Is Invalid! conference from the EuroPython 2020.

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Created 3 years ago
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Top GitHub Comments

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lasconiccommented, Nov 6, 2020

Ok 😃 It makes sense to remove it.

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BoboTiGcommented, Nov 6, 2020

I do not recall why I added it at first 🤔

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