2009/5/11 Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se>: > Category sorting in MediaWiki has always been done wrong. > Categories are not sorted alphabetically, but in Unicode order.
Sure thing. See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164 with 95 votes… > Another example of broken sorting is when whitespace is compared > to letters. In ASCII and Unicode, whitespace (position 32) sorts > ahead of all printable characters. This means Moon illusion sorts > ahead of Moonbow in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Moon > because the whitespace before "illusion" is compared to the b in > Moonbow. I'm not sure if this is correct in English, but in > Swedish it is wrong; bow should sort before illusion, regardless > of the whitespace. In Czech, this is correct, Czech collation works on individual words. As you see, the rules are language-specific. > There is a way to avoid all such problems, namely by a more > aggressive use of DEFAULTSORT that removes from sorting all upper > case letters (except the initial one), all whitespace and all > commas. The problem is much more difficult than that (see the linked bug). Commas, case sensitivity and whitespace are a trivial problem in comparison with non-ASCII letters. -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
