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[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/621577

Title:
  Applications should be Unicode-sorted

Status in Unity:
  Fix Released
Status in Unity Applications Lens:
  Fix Released
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “unity-place-applications” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: unity-place-applications

  It appears that applications are currently sorted by code-point
  comparisons (i.e. the numeric Unicode value is higher or lower).  But
  this isn't the Right Way to sort Unicode strings.

  For example, see the attached screenshot.  Where "Déjà Dup Backup
  Utility" comes after "Dogtail Recorder".

  The Right Way way of sorting Unicode strings is according to the UCA:
  http://unicode.org/reports/tr10/ (which, to me, is pretty fascinating;
  it's a surprisingly complicated problem).  This is the same method
  used by the Software Center to sort applications
  (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#def-alphabetically).

  There is a library, libicu that includes methods for sorting strings.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: unity-place-applications 0.2.12-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-17.23-generic 2.6.35.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-17-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Aug 21 01:29:42 2010
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_GB.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: unity-place-applications

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