On 15/02/2018 10:19 PM, Hanne Moa wrote:
On 2018-02-06 12:51, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
Thank you. I think this is where we probably need to go. I asked the original
question because I'm hoping the project will reach a tipping point and start to
accumulate a growing number of multilingual users. We have our first
multinational user but they only operate in the English speaking world so no
pressure at the moment.
There can be no sort that satisfies every possible language at the same time. For instance, Norwegian sorts "ä" as "a" and
"ö" as "o". Swedish sorts them after "å" as separate letters: åäö. Then there is Turkish where "i" sorts
differently from "ı" (dotless i).
That is interesting! It says to me that longer term I need to think
about special sort orders for different languages. A bit above my pay
grade just now.
I've worked the greek letter prefixes by using a separate sort field
only seen by the software. A simple replace('α', 'a') lets me adjust
sort order for the moment. That may work with diacritics for some time.
I'll be driven by actual requirements until I hit a brick wall and then
I'll ask for PhD help :)
Thanks
Mike
I'm guessing chemistry names follow their own rules, you could see how hard it
is to make your own os collation table and use that? Then everything running on
the server would sort by the same rules.
HM
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