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[Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

We've had a merge proposal to make sorting of subscriber names 
case-insensitive:

https://code.launchpad.net/~nigelbabu/launchpad/spec-sub-sort/+merge/63315

This harks back to a problem we've run into before: IIRC we run 
Launchpad in the C locale, which sorts unpleasantly.  It may seem like a 
small thing if you're used to Latin script but it could actually be 
quite bad with other languages.  Any human-readable locale such as 
en_US.UTF-8 would fix the problem.

As I recall, technical uncertainty stopped us from fixing this at the 
time.  It may have been because we were still running dapper back then, 
and its locale support differed too much from lucid's.

Could we try again, or perhaps find some narrower way to improve 
user-visible sort ordering?


Jeroen