Commit 7e1e46a5 authored by Mark Summerfield's avatar Mark Summerfield

Added note in footnote about string comparisons about

unicodedata.normalize().
parent 50a4e9db
......@@ -1330,9 +1330,10 @@ groups from right to left).
.. [#] While comparisons between unicode strings make sense at the byte
level, they may be counter-intuitive to users. For example, the
strings ``u"\u00C7"`` and ``u"\u0327\u0043"`` compare differently,
strings ``u"\u00C7"`` and ``u"\u0043\u0327"`` compare differently,
even though they both represent the same unicode character (LATIN
CAPTITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA).
CAPTITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA). To compare strings in a human
recognizable way, compare using :func:`unicodedata.normalize`.
.. [#] The implementation computes this efficiently, without constructing lists or
sorting.
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