[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16530: Implement locale based sorting

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#16530: Implement locale based sorting
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 Reporter:  cyberskull   |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  I18N         |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Comment (by cyberskull):

 Replying to [comment:4 cyberskull]:
 > Replying to [comment:3 Denis-de-Bernardy]:
 > > It's a tiny bit trickier, actually:
 > >
 > > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/12/sorting-for-humans-natural-
 sort-order.html
 >
 > I was deliberately ignoring sorting numbers at this point. I wanted more
 to get a framework in place to handle natural locale comparisons. With the
 framework in place, we could start plugging in functions for each language
 to do the sorts.
 >
 > I wonder if there is a natural sort PHP package?

 '''Good news everybody!'''

 PHP has a natural sort functions built in.
 [http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.natsort.php natsort] for arrays and
 [http://php.net/manual/en/function.strnatcmp.php strnatcmp] for a natural
 string comparison.

 So to update my examples from above:

 {{{
 function local_compare($a, $b)
 {
         local function $locale_format = $locale_sorts{locale()};
         #Gets the appropriate formatter function from a hash of functions
 based
         #on the locale() or returns null/undef.

         if($locale_format)
         {
                 $a = $locale_format($a); #format a
                 $b = $locale_format($b); #format b
         }

         return strnatcmp($a, $b);
 }
 }}}

 And the formatter:
 {{{
 en_locale_compare_format($string)
 {
         $string =~ /^((a|the)\s+)?(.+)/i;
         return $3;
 }
 }}}

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