On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:28 PM, caller#6 <meatbyproduct-musicbra...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > as discussed recently[1], there are a few problems with the logic of > sort names. > > I'd like to identify them before starting in on a guideline revision.
I haven't read all of the previous thread(s) on this topic so I'm not sure what kind of solution you're consider, but if you're looking for problems, Chinese artists have them. For Chinese, the sort name is in fact "Latin-script name with added commas" and is not at all useful for sorting. I have to set up Picard to use the artist name as the sort name, since Unicode order at least keeps similarly named artists together. Examples: These 3 artists with the same family name (周) end up in 3 different places because of the different romanization systems used on the mainland, in Taiwan and in Hong Kong: 周杰倫 Chou, Jay 周潤發 Chow, Yun-Fat 周迅 Zhou, Xun Here's a sample of groups with "random" sort order: 水木年华 Age of Water and Wood 壞女兒 Bad Daughter 黑名單工作室 Black List Studio 董事長樂團 Chairman 冷血动物 Cold Blooded Animal 冷酷仙境 Cold Fairyland 可米小子 Comic Boyz 深白色2人組 Deep White 飛輪海 Fahrenheit 鐵竹堂 Iron Bamboo 五月天 Mayday 南拳媽媽 Nan Quan Mama 自然捲 Natural Q 新裤子 New Pants 團契遊樂園 Playground 動力火車 Power Station 果味VC Super VC 超级市场 Supermarket 女子十二乐坊 Twelve Girls Band I image that any non-Latin script would have the same problems, at least those with multiple romanization systems or where the romanization does not produce the correct order anyway. -- Philip Jägenstedt _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
