https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28541

--- Comment #4 from Bawolff <[email protected]> 2011-04-15 19:13:41 UTC ---

Actually both can be output now. the actual sortkey as specified by humans is
called sortkey_prefix (may or may not have the underscore in the api, can't
remember). The question is, what are users of the api using the original
sortkey for - to show what its sorted under, or to sort items. One of the
rationales for doing it as it is currently (binary data in sortkey field) is if
people are using the info from the api to sort things, they would want to sort
by comparing the binary field. So doing it this way somewhat preserves the
semantics of the original field in a sense See bug 24650

hex might be the way to go here.

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