We'd like to be able to sort a mixture of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses using the tablesorter on the Special:Investigate page (T237300#6215030).

The tablesorter doesn't currently support IPv6, so specifying the IP address parser doesn't work. According to T47161, we'd like to remove the IP parser, so expanding it to support IPv6 doesn't seem like a good idea.

The hex number representations would sort correctly as text if it weren't for the fact that the tablesorter uses numeric collation (so e.g. rEMFRabc999a839e2 > abc99aa because 999 > 99).

One way we could solve this would be to have an option for non-numeric collation.