Gerard Meijssen wrote: > The point of this thread is that the collation is not working > well. A hack is proposed and in my opinion it makes better sense > to apply what is effectively the standard for collation.
Gerard, I don't think you are being helpful. My point in proposing the DEFAULTSORT hack (which is totally ugly), is that the WMF technicians are unable to address the issue. If they were able to "apply a standard", bug 164 would not have been open for more than four years. Sure, there are standards and they should be implemented at the database level (in MySQL, not in MediaWiki), which I think they are in MySQL version 6. It remains an open question how many more years will we have to wait for WMF to upgrade to that version. In the mean time, perhaps we should start (today?) to use DEFAULTSORT more aggressively? -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
