https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30675

--- Comment #3 from Bawolff <[email protected]> 2011-09-11 22:51:34 UTC ---
This wouldn't affect the sorting of stuff (because we use intl for that, not
our own code as Verdy said). However, we do use our own code to determine which
"first letter" to use for all the first letter headers on categories. (that's
what generateCollationData.php does)

Changing allkeys.txt to allkeys_CLDR.txt results in very little changes. The
only change is two currency symbols: ₨ (U+20A8 'RUPEE SIGN') and  ﷼  (U+FDFC
'RIAL SIGN') would now be used in the first letter headers on category pages. 

The change is probably because allkeys.txt treats ₨ (Rupee sign) similar to
plain ole' Rs (latin R followed by latin s), where allkeys_CLDR.txt seems to
treat it as a currency symbol and sorts it far away from latin R followed by
latin s. (I think anyways, I'm new to some of this fancy unicode sorting
stuff). I assume te arabic currency symbol is similar but didn't check.

But again, we'd probably want to use which ever one the intl extension is
using. On my local test server that seems to be allkeys.txt. If you mix and
match things, you'd end up with the article "Rss feed" being sorted under the
Rupee sign, which is probably not good.

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