On 2004.06.21 17:36, Timwi - timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
tic@tictric.net wrote:
A page Albert_Einstein gets categorised as [[Category: Albert_Einstein|Einstein, Albert]] and shows up as E Albert_Einstein where it shoud be E Einstein, Albert. That's weird.
It always shows the actual title.
I think the point in his posting was to say that it *should not* always show the actual title, and I agree with him. We shouldn't have "Albert Einstein" under E, we should have "Einstein, Albert".
I always thought this was going to be done, and I actually thought that the fact that it used the string only as a sort key but not for display, was a bug. Personally, I think it should be "fixed". :-)
Brion went on to say:
"The sort key isn't necessarily very legible; it may be numeric, encoded, or otherwise funky to force a certain sort mechanism."
I just wanted to add that I, for one, was expecting to use odd sort keys exactly for this reason, and I am very glad that this mechanism is available. I think it is unfortunate, in a way, that you can not ask to see them, but I am sure that, in my case, it is better if they are not visible by default.
Jim