Re: [Tiki-devel] Unicode-aware sort plugin

Volker Wysk <post-hhF2Jplw28UoZk/[email protected]> Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:13:08 +0200

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PS:

There's the standard PHP function sort(), which takes some flags, for
instance SORT_NATURAL and SORT_LOCALE_STRING, which do what is needed here.
But these two can't be combined. It isn't a solution.

Volker

Am Donnerstag, dem 29.06.2023 um 19:06 +0200 schrieb Volker Wysk:
> Hi!
> 
> The Sort Plugin is kinda broken, because it isn't Unicode aware. That's not
> that easy to fix, because the PHP natcasesort() function isn't Unicode
> aware. And there is no mb_natcasesort(). It needs to be done differently.
> 
> I've found on the web, how it is to be done, here:
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58577558/how-to-use-multiple-sort-flags-in-php-array-sorting-using-sort-locale-string
> 
> I've applied it to the wikiplugin_sort and it works. However, this plugin
> needs to use the correct locale for the user. I don't know how to get this
> locale. This bit is still missing.
> 
> I've attached the new wikiplugin_sort.php.
> 
> Someone with more Tiki knowledge should improve this version, by querying
> the locale to be used and pass it to the collator_create function.
> 
> I suspect that this state of affairs occurs in a few other places as well,
> which use "natural ordering".
> 
> Cheers,
> Volker
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