Re: [mb-style] Artist sort name for a fairly special case

2011-06-09 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 20:47, Nikki wrote: > Philip Jägenstedt wrote: >> IMO, the sortname is useless for non-Latin scripts, or at least for >> Chinese. In order to get anything like a sane sorting you'd have to >> use the same transliteration system (say Hanyu Pinyin) for all >> artists, but that

Re: [mb-style] Artist sort name for a fairly special case

2011-06-09 Thread Nikki
Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > IMO, the sortname is useless for non-Latin scripts, or at least for > Chinese. In order to get anything like a sane sorting you'd have to > use the same transliteration system (say Hanyu Pinyin) for all > artists, but that makes no sense for Hong Kong artists whose native

Re: [mb-style] Artist sort name for a fairly special case

2011-06-09 Thread Calvin Walton
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 08:43 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > 2011/6/8 Yin Izanami : > > The artist "AAA" is literally and physically sorted as "TORIPURU-EE" / > > "Triple A" in Japan. You can see this in Japanese bookstores and on > > avexnet's listing of all its artists - it is sorted under the

Re: [mb-style] Artist sort name for a fairly special case

2011-06-07 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
2011/6/8 Yin Izanami : > The artist "AAA" is literally and physically sorted as "TORIPURU-EE" / > "Triple A" in Japan.  You can see this in Japanese bookstores and on > avexnet's listing of all its artists - it is sorted under the "TO" > character, not "A" or "E" or the like. > > I realize artist s

[mb-style] Artist sort name for a fairly special case

2011-06-07 Thread Yin Izanami
The artist "AAA" is literally and physically sorted as "TORIPURU-EE" / "Triple A" in Japan. You can see this in Japanese bookstores and on avexnet's listing of all its artists - it is sorted under the "TO" character, not "A" or "E" or the like. I realize artist sort name is not supposed to be use