Aryeh Gregor schrieb: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Daniel Kinzler <dan...@brightbyte.de> wrote: >> There is none. Sorting is done by the database. That is to say, in the >> default >> "comnpatibility" mode, binary "collation" is used - that is, byte-by-byte >> comparison of UTF-8 encoded data. Which sucks. But we are stuck with it until >> MySQL gets proper Unicode support. > > And until we upgrade to that version. MySQL 4 doesn't have *any* > Unicode support -- or any character encoding support, in fact. Every > is binary.
right :) > But we don't have to wait on MySQL. We would just have to store a > Unicode sortkey in cl_sortkey instead of the actual Unicode > characters. This would require an implementation of a Unicode sorting > algorithm in MediaWiki. It could be language-specific or whatever you > want. Yes, i thought about that a bit too. One problem would be that you can't use that to make pretty sections on the category page. But that would be solvable using an extra column, I suppose. Or by some kind of extra special magic mapping. -- daniel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
