[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:1 pavelevap]:
 > Related?
 >
 > http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11740

 I would have to say that it is tangentially related. The issue there has
 more to do with direct ordinal sorting. In issue #11740 the character Ř
 (0x0158) will never come just after R (0x0052), as there is a difference
 of 262 (0x106) characters between the two.  What I was trying to get at is
 that there are some words that in any given locale that are ignored when
 sorting (a & the in English titles, nouns, etc).

 So it looks like the correct thing to do is first implement proper
 alphabetical sorting according to the locale, then implement proper
 grammatical sorting.

 Yeah, that is the term I have been looking for: **Grammatical Sorting**.

 Back to the main point. In English alphabetical sorting is ordinal sorting
 (whether case-sensitive or not). But for languages like Czech ordinal ≠
 alphabetical. Implementation-wise, these can be done independent of each
 other. But I see this issue as a bit easier to implement as building a
 mechanism for sorting alphabetically is more work than sorting based on
 the rules of grammar, though the alphabetical would be a big boost to the
 grammatical search.

 That's enough of my ramblings for now. I hope this is of some use.

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