Author: Drilnoth
Description:
Currently, all uppercase letters are sorted in categories before all lowercase letters. For example, in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bo-Bo_locomotives , the article "VR Class Sr2" is listed before "Victorian Railways E class (electric)". This is especially problematic in categories where abbreviations such as "SSX" or "NBA" are commonly used. Logically, uppercase letters should be sorted as being the same as lowercase letters. I understand that this is caused because category sorting uses Unicode ordering, but would it be possible to (essentially) say that "A = a", to have them sort correctly?
Current guidelines on this issue at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization#Using_sort_keys would imply that most articles should have a DEFAULTSORT key in order to fix this, but there is resistance to having DEFAULTSORTs which really shouldn't be needed.
Version: 1.16.x
Severity: enhancement