https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8732
--- Comment #8 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> 2010-04-14 12:00:18 UTC --- You're true, I still wait for a builtin parser function that can convert any string (purged from the HTML/XML formatting) into a binary sortable collation key (even if it's not readable, but still prses OK as a valid Unicode plain-text string). Performing true collation on the client side would require much more extensive work and would imply much more compatibility and performance problems when implementing it in a Javascript function (this is possible but would be horribly slow for the site navigation, when such collation keys can be informed and cached on the server side). This would also help fixing the collation order of entries added in categories. One problem is to have a builtin parser function that can create collection keys according to specific languages (not necessarily the main language of the wiki): the collation order in categories should, by default, reflect the collation order expected for categories specific to the language they index (notably in Wiktionary: yuo won't sort the English/French categories like German, Swedish, Hindi, Chinese, Korean categories). Finally, there shoud also exist a way to: * either index a category by multiple collations (for Chinese notably: by radical/stroke, or by pinyin : two separate categories ?) * or offer to users a way to change the presentation order of the same categories (for languages that need multiple ones like Chinese), by setting up the category page with a list of additional collation orders that can be queried directly from the server, using the suer's preference or a user selection via a link containing an addtional HTTP query parameter, such as: ** "http://.../wiki/Category:...?collate=zh-Latn"; for Pinyin, ** "http://.../wiki/Category:...?collate=zh-Hani"; for traditional radical/stroke order (this should however be cachable, and should be honored by the server, for performance reasons, only if the category page was prepared with a list of possible collation orders, the default collation being based on the Unicode's DUCET, or possibly on the collation rules for the main language of the wiki if it's a localized wiki and not an international multilingual wiki like Commons, which should still use the DUCET by default, i.e. the collation order for the "root" locale in Unicode's CLDR database) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
