[sword-devel] Glossaries & LangSortOrder

[DM Smith]

No. The dictionary module uses a collation mechanism to byte order upper case keys. It then uses a binary search algorithm to find the keys. There is a CaseInsensitiveKeys=true that can be set in the conf which will make the order of the keys based upon the mixed case keys, but the index is still sorted by byte order of those keys. There are some scripts that don’t have upper/lower case (e.g. arabic) and some languages where a naive toUpper will result in the wrong character (e.g. Turkish lower dotted i and Turkish capital dotted I). It is fine to use toUpper for internal normalization, but having keys in all caps when showing to a user is annoying.

The problem is that the display order needs to follow something that makes sense to a user when the dictionary is presented as a list.

In Him,
	DM

> On Jan 12, 2016, at 8:01 AM, Peter Von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> Is this not something which is included in Linux locales?
> 
> Peter
> 
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Januar 2016 um 12:27 Uhr
>> Von: "David Haslam" <dfhmch at googlemail.com>
>> An: sword-devel at crosswire.org
>> Betreff: [sword-devel] Glossaries & LangSortOrder
>> 
>> I noticed that John Austin has this in
>> https://github.com/johnaustindev/osis-converters
>> 
>> Comparison of .conf files to CrossWire .conf
>> 
>> These xulsword specific .conf file entries may be included:
>> 
>> LangSortOrder = AaBbCcDdEe... is used by xulsword to sort the keys of a
>> dictionary/glossary in original alphabetical order.
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>> I can readily imagine why this is needed for some languages.
>> 
>> Is this something we could usefully include in SWORD ?
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> 
>> 
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