OK, so it sounds like the best way forward is:

1. For any wikis that have specific language versions of uca collation
available (for example, uca-fr), but haven't yet switched to it, go ahead
and switch them to that collation. This should take care of a few dozen
wikis.

2. Start a discussion on Meta wiki about potentially changing the default
collation from uppercase to uca-default and (hopefully) find out if this
would cause any problems or if there are wikis that would want to opt out
(or if it's just a bad idea in general).

Does that sound reasonable to everyone?

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Friday, May 27, 2016, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Yes, of course, & a meta discussion will likely unearth many reasons to
> > opt-out ;)
> >
> > Does uca (or extension) do the right thing for West Frisian (fy) wrt y &
> i ?
> >
> > Or, ... it would be helpful to put the list of 94 wiki somewhere easy to
> > consume.
>
> Fy is not on the list at
>
> https://ssl.icu-project.org/trac/browser/icu/trunk/source/data/coll?order=name
> . As a general rule any language not on that list that does something that
> either conflicts with english, or has something complicated (such as having
> letters with diacretics being considered a full letter to be sorted
> seperately (in the terminology of UCA having a primary weight difference) )
> will probably not work fully correctly with the uca collation. Of course
> uca-default still might be a better fallback then the current system
> depending on the language.
>
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