What I do in my Core Data-based Latin and Greek vocabulary list iOS apps is maintain extra fields (attributes) that contain transliterations of the Greek/Latin terms into the English alphabet in such a way that sorting normally on those fields gives me the order that is correct for Greek/Latin. m.
On Jan 3, 2013, at 12:00 PM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:49:15 -0600 > From: Fritz Anderson <fri...@manoverboard.org> > To: Cocoa-Dev Cocoa-Dev <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> > Subject: Core Data and localized sort on iOS > Message-ID: <202d147a-95b8-40ec-a6ae-baaf04130...@manoverboard.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > iOS 6 > > I have (or will have) a Core Data store, one entity of which has an attribute > that is a French word. French collates differently than English or a naïve > Unicode sort would. My application will have both English and French > localizations. It is next-to-nonnegotiable that the word lists I present be > sorted in French order, regardless of the current locale. There will be > 74,000 instances; I'd like to have tables that narrow down by incremental > prefix searches. > > NSString has comparison methods that can take account of a specified locale, > so if I'm working in code, I don't (I hope) have a problem. > > But I'd like to get ordered results from Core Data fetches. My first > impression is that I could use the …comparator: versions of NSSortDescriptor, > and put my localized comparison in the block. But I know Core Data is often > pickier about what NSFetchRequest will do for you. The examples in the > documentation are confined to …Key:ascending: descriptors. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
