Re: [Koha-devel] Should the first 3 digits of cn_sort be sorted for dewey decimal?

2018-06-16 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 2:37 AM, Michael Kuhn wrote: > > Dewey Decimal Classification uses characters that indeed do look like > Arabic numbers (standing for classes, divisions, sections), but these > characters do not behave like numbers, so the correct sorting is actually > not as you would exp

Re: [Koha-devel] Should the first 3 digits of cn_sort be sorted for dewey decimal?

2018-06-16 Thread Michael Kuhn
Hi Barton > ...and then sub-divisions of the thousands are done after the decimal > point -- 001.1, 001.2, etc... > > as such, I don't think that callnumber 1.1 is a valid DDC number... it > lacks the class and hundred-level group, and should, for the purposes > of cn_sort, be converted to 001_1

Re: [Koha-devel] Should the first 3 digits of cn_sort be sorted for dewey decimal?

2018-06-16 Thread Barton Chittenden
Very interesting! Thanks for the link. ___ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs