The categorylinks tables will have to be rebuilt if this is to be
deployed at the live sites. Not sure how expensive that will be.
Interested parties please visit the test site and provide comments
either at the site or this list. If this seems to be a reasonable
solution I will check it into cvs. Test site is running 1.4 from cvs.
One question that comes to my mind is how to define
$wgCharOrder_en_cat. Obviously for proof of principle, you have only
implemented A-Z and a-z. But isn't UTF8 quite large? Will
wgCharOrder_en_cat need to include every possible character code? This
could get quite cumbersome.
Barring that, the idea seems quite elegant.
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Rich Holton
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