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category sorting cannot handle Thai words properly
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Author: arthit

Description:
seems like the current sorting algorithm of WikiMedia for [[category:...]] is
based on ASCII-value.

therefore it failed to sort Thai words (as well as many other languages).

New language-aware sorting algorithm is require.


also, in order to handle many locale/language-specific sorting perfrences,
may be we have to have a mechanism that allow contributor to specify the sort
preference of each category.

may be we can add this to the category page,

[[Category-sort-option:sort_option]]

for examples:

[[Category-sort-option:en-GB]]
[[Category-sort-option:th]]

in the case of Wikipedia, this can be obmitted,
and use a default value which will be determined from the language of the Wikipedia.


Version: 1.5.x
Severity: major

Details

Reference
bz2818

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:42 PM
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