I've mentioned here that the MA contacts app wasn't putting things in the correct order, after modifying or adding a new contact. I've figured out why, and this may help someone, sometime.
In every contact app I've used in the last 15 years, all entries are sorted case insensitively, that is greene dan (both starting lowercase) would come before Greene Daniel (both starting uppercase). However, when I enter greene dan, forgetting to capitalize the first letter of each proper name, MA puts it at the end of the contact list. It turns out that MA appears to be sorting the list case-sensitively. This is not a problem, as long as you, the user, are strictly consistent in your capitalization. Forget to capitalize a name, or capitalize one when every other entry is lower case, and your list will start to look very mysterious. Say you forget to uppercase the first letter of a few first names, you could get a list looking like: Smith Bob Smith Henry Smith Tom Smith andrew Smith bill Smith john Obviously, the capitalization on the first names are causing the names to be just that much out of order to make you wonder strange things. When this phone was set up, 105 contacts were imported from an old Windows phone, first and last names all nicely capitalized. I added a few items, forgetting to capitalize properly, and at first it looked like the entries weren't even there, until I noticed them hanging out at the end of the list. The sensitivity issue may also explain some strangeness I've seen when entering lower case letters in the filter text field, and the field saying it could find no contacts. Hmm. Just one of those little annoyances... Cheers Dan G _______________________________________________ ma_mailing mailing list [email protected] http://list.codefactory.cat/mailman/listinfo/codefactory.cat.ma_mailing
