Forwarding this to wikitech-l, since it's probably more relevant there.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Sort order in Thai Wikipedia Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:03:13 -0500 From: [LiM] Manop manop-LYoGGuqGVYgAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Reply-To: manop-LYoGGuqGVYgAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, wikipedia-l-T31ubCBy5U6GglJvpFV4uA@public.gmane.org Newsgroups: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc

Hello,

I'm wondering where I can find how to fix the sort order in Thai Wikipedia. The problem is that, in Thai language, words starting with a vowel alphabet need to use the second alphabet (consonant alphabet) as the sort key but the Mediawiki always use the first alphabets sorting by its unicode.

I searched some and found out that someone already asked this question in bugzilla.wikimedia.org (http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164) (#32, Oct 05). And also the related one is already mentioned in unicode collation algorithm for Thai/Lao ( http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/ in #3.1.3 Rearrangement). And also I found someone talking about LC_COLLATE in English WP for sorting specific alphabet order (but I really don't know about this).

Thank you for any answer.

Regards, Manop