On 21 July 2010 15:15, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
Why won't per-page help? I'm not understanding clearly here. I don't think it would be too much trouble to add per-page and per-category parser functions to set the language used for sort keys, though.
Because there are multiple languages on each page - so you need lots of different sort keys.
But different articles that are sorted as though they started with the same letter might not actually start with the same letter, so how do we figure out which first letter is the correct one? This is a problem even if you're just dealing with accented letters -- I have no idea how this stuff works (or doesn't work) for CJK or whatnot.
If it's sorted as starting with "a" it should appear under "a". The alternative would be to have different explicit sorting for the sections in the category than for the words in the section, which I think is unnecessary.
Conrad