* peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-01-22 17:55]:
> Could something be done about the country list on this page? It is
> sorted backwards for Swedish (Austria in Swedish is Österrike and Ö is
> the last letter of the Swedish alphabet), which makes it look really
> ugly.
I noticed that too, Österreich is also the first in the list on the
german page. Where in the german alphabeth the Ö should be sorted next
to O. Is there some sort of locale handling we can insert into this?
I guess that the list is perl-generated - maybe we should switch to
locale-sorting, like pointed out in the perllocale manual page:
{
use POSIX qw(locale_h);
my $old_locale = setlocale(LC_COLLATE);
setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "de_DE.ISO8859-1");
use locale;
# do the sorting in here
setlocale(LC_COLLATE, $old_locale);
}
It is needed to do it in a block to not let the use locale escape.
Something like this should be possible for all the lists that are used -
even the server-List at the top of each page (which in contrary to this
very list lists Österreich as the last entry :-/ ).
If someone can tell me in which files this should be entered I can do
it - but I think it would be better if one with a full checkout can try
it (I have only german and english on my disk).
> Same goes with other pages that include auto-generated country lists.
> The mirror list on the top-right of all pages do sort properly, so it
> shuld be possible to fix.
Does it correct for you - it's not really correct :)
HTH,
Alfie
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