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Added note in footnote about string comparisons about 

unicodedata.normalize().
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Mark Summerfield 2007-10-03 08:53:21 +00:00
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.. [#] 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.