Wow, yes, that sounds the sort of thing. It would need to be customisable, I'm not sure that the sequence used for the transliteration of hieroglyphs would necesarily be catered for.... 😊 Gary -------------------------------------------- On Sun, 12/3/17, leleu <robert.le...@ovh.fr> wrote:
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] sort order To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 12 March, 2017, 18:07 see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_collation_algorithm now the problem is "where is the "collation algorithm" of calc ? An algorithm which obviously has to change according to the language..... Je la 12/03/2017 18:50, Gary Collins skribis : > Thank you, yes it does. I got it to work with Greek iota which is about the least obtrusive. Strangely (to my mind) some less obtrusive characters with higher unicode *dont* work. Its a bit of a mystery whats going on, i can only surmise that there is somewhere a table of 'blacklisted' characters which are not taken into account for sorting purposes. This new (ish) sort order lark has been a right pain in the proverbials for me, generally speaking. I'll now just scour the table in the hope of finding something even better but at least there is *something* that'll work > > Thanks, > G. > -------------------------------------------- > On Sun, 12/3/17, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] sort order > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Date: Sunday, 12 March, 2017, 5:51 > > At 17:58 11/03/2017 +0000, Gary > Collins wrote: > >I'd like to know if there is a character, preferably > some sort of > >discrete punctuation mark, that will come *after* z in > the sort > >order when using natural sort. My problem is that i have > some codes > >beginning Aa which really speaking should come after Z. > As a number > >of up to 3 digits follows the letter(s) in each case, im > getting A# > >followed by Aa# then B# which really wont do. I have to > use natural > >sort as i need eg A12 to come after A3. Ive tried a few > punctuation > >characters and some special characters but i cant find > one that > >works. Any light that can be shed on this would be very > welcome > >indeed. I really dont want to have to precede Aa with a > z if that > >can possibly be avoided. > > These are not punctuation marks, but a bit of > experimentation > suggests that any Greek character, upper or lower case, will > serve. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? >http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and > cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
