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Sorting with the UCA in Python

Sorting using the Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA) is available with PyPi package PyICU.

from PyICU import Collator

collator = Collator.createInstance()
sorted = sorted(unsorted, key=collator.getSortKey)

Linguistic tailoring

The PyICU package also supports linguistic tailoring.

from PyICU import Collator, Locale

collator = Collator.createInstance(Locale('de'))
sorted = sorted(unsorted, key=collator.getSortKey)