In my opinion, it's a problem with the music player if it can't sort unicode characters properly and I would just use what's in the artist name. We already permit a huge range of characters (mainly accented ones) which would be problematic for something which doesn't know how to sort non-ASCII characters. Plus, replacing the characters in sortnames when tagging with Picard can be done in exactly the same way as replacing them in artist names if it's a problem for someone. ;)
Nikki Bogdan Butnaru wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I don’t recall seeing this subject mentioned, but I wasn’t always > along for the whole discussion on RFV2-294. > > I’ve been looking through Sortname Style and I don’t notice any > specific mention of punctuation; there’s only the general rule about > “stylized names”. So as far as I can tell, the current Miscellaneous > Guideline applies to sortnames, in the sense that correct punctuation > is preferred to ASCII but not mandatory. > > While that is in itself an acceptable policy, it does potentially > break the implied intent of a sortname. Imagine the scenario of these > four bands existing (each name starting after the colon): > > 1: X’s a > 2: X’s aa > 3: X’s b > 4: X’s bb > > As I understand it, Sortname Style is intended to lead to these four > names being sorted as above (1-2-3-4). However, if for some reason 1 > and 3 use one kind of apostrophe and 2 and 4 use a different kind, a > sorting algorithm that doesn’t collate the two apostrophes as > identical can sort them as 1-3-2-4 or 2-4-1-3. Similar things can > happen with the other punctuation marks, but I imagine they’re less > common in names (as opposed to titles); even if they do happen, it’s > less likely that they happen several times in the same position. > > So, does anyone else think we need to discuss this? > > (Even if we decide that we don’t care and we just leave the option to > the editors, we should probably mention that explicitly in the > Sortname Style page; I had to read it several times to decide that > both ASCII and “correct” punctuation is allowed, and I’m still not > 100% sure. > > Also note that even if the MusicBrainz server uses a collation that > treats the various apostrophes as identical, other systems like music > players might not.) > > -- Bogdan Butnaru > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
