Hi, Let me preface this request by saying that when it comes to django, I'm an advanced beginner (so this might be a dumb request).
The motivation for my request involved users of a django-based database of international scholars who wanted their names sorted "correctly." I explained that different languages sorted characters differently, and therefore there was no single correct sort order, but I promised to see if I could easily implement language-specific orderings. What I found was that django seems to rely on the database for this feature: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/databases/#collation-settings which (if I've understood things correctly) makes sense for performance reasons, but makes it more difficult to change things on the fly, e.g., to provide language-specific ordering. Using suggestions on this page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1097908/how-do-i-sort-unicode-strings-alphabetically-in-python I fixed things well-enough for my present purposes, but I thought it would be useful to abstract this capability away from the database, with django itself providing some version of the Unicode collation algorithm: http://unicode.org/reports/tr10/ This might hook into django's internationalization and localization features, and/or be accessible at a lower level, e.g., with a keyword argument to, or variant of, "order_by". Rationale: any django developer that needs to display sorted lists to international users could probably benefit from this feature. Thanks, Ed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
