https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19197
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Summary: Capital letters are always sorted first
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: Windows Vista
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Categories
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Currently, all uppercase letters are sorted in categories before all lowercase
letters. For example, in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bo-Bo_locomotives , the article "VR Class
Sr2" is listed before "Victorian Railways E class (electric)". This is
especially problematic in categories where abbreviations such as "SSX" or "NBA"
are commonly used. Logically, uppercase letters should be sorted as being the
same as lowercase letters. I understand that this is caused because category
sorting uses Unicode ordering, but would it be possible to (essentially) say
that "A = a", to have them sort correctly?
Current guidelines on this issue at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization#Using_sort_keys would
imply that most articles should have a DEFAULTSORT key in order to fix this,
but there is resistance to having DEFAULTSORTs which really shouldn't be
needed.
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