Bugzilla – Bug 5899
Proposal: customizable sort-by file
Last modified: 2011-11-06 23:22:55 UTC
I have begun to think that we will never be able to make more than a fraction of our non-English-speaking customers happy with our sort order. My proposal is that we have a file that includes every character, and customers can edit the file into whatever order they prefer. We can have a set of default files for officially supported languages. The obvious downside to this idea, and there may be many others, is there are many ways to do this that will end up being extremely CPU-intensive. We need to find a way that's not.
a fair number of sorting issues are due to trying to merge different files from different codepage into one fluid list on yet another codepage (throw in cross-oses if you feel brave :). The source files are not always cleanly set up to work with the host system. It's going to present a similar level of difficulty ensuring that the user-provided files are up to scratch. I expect there would be a lot of work parsing the file and matching it up with the alrady questionable metadata, but some effort might be relieved via caching.
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