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[Justas <justas@xxxxxx>]

Hey,

On 12/22/2010 06:51 PM, Douglas Cerna wrote:
> Hello everybody.
>
> I've added ICollator sorting support for the gradebook and I'd like your opinion on this sorting:
>
> http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/209/pantallazo1zy.png
>
> Does it look good? I'm kind of sure about "Á" coming after "A" and "Ñ" after "N", and I remember Justas told me once "Š" comes after "S". Does "Č" come before "C"?
  It depends :)   See table 1 at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/

  Currently collator is retrieved by locale in the request, or forced 
from schooltool.conf (or in case of multiple languages in .conf, the 
setting selected in web UI by every user IIRC).  The result is that 
people who browse the gradebook in spanish will have *different person 
order* than those browsing in english.

  A better implementation is to add a setting of preferred collator to 
use when sorting *names*.   Check out key/type pairs in 
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/xml_rep/language.jsp 
; also locales like German Phonebook Order or Hindi Direct Order at 
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=%2Fnls%2Frbagsicusortsequencetables.htm 
.

  Users should be able to specify the default language of person names, 
in .conf or maybe in manage->site preferences:
lang de
person_name_lang de@collation=phonebook

  If person_name_lang is not configured, it may be reasonable to use 
server's locale (as opposed to browser's locale for lang).

  Of course, even that is not enough to sort person names correctly, 
but that's a start.  Somewhat related: 
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/schooltool/+spec/personal-name-schemas

Cheers,
Justas