Frank - your impulse to look into broader (unicode) sorting collations seems to me right. I don't want to get into rolling our solutions for this kind of thing.
Bruce On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Frank Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > A user on the Zotero forums has reported a sort result that apprently > differs from an example given in MLA Handbook 7th ed. The cause is inclusion > of a space in the sort, so that "De Quincey" (treating the De as part of the > last name) sorts as: > > De Quincy > Deniehy > > If the space were ignored, the order would be: > > Deniehy > De Quincey > > http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/20926/double-surnames-alphabetical-order-in-bibliography-solved/#Comment_138951 > > This behaviour appears to be a feature of the English Unicode collation. > I've scratched around a little for information on preferred sort methods, > but haven't found anything to add to the MLA example cited by user iselim in > the discussion linked above. > > Stripping spaces from the processor sort keys would align behaviour with the > MLA example, but I don't know what general expectations are for sorting of > space characters (and hyphens...). > > Can anyone offer clues on the specifics of bibliographic sort requirements, > and whether they vary across styles and locales? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov > _______________________________________________ > xbiblio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
