User:Mike Dillon/Sorting

Discussions

 * Beer parlour

Existing guidelines

 * About Japanese
 * About Korean

Issues

 * Sort keys
 * meta:Help:Magic words
 * Normalization
 * Diacritics (accents, etc.)
 * Pre-combined v. combining forms
 * Case folding
 * Mixed language sorting
 * Category display segmentation (head characters)
 * Category TOCs
 * Unicode collation algorithm
 * Performant implementation (currently database-level sorts)
 * How to allow different categories to define their own collations while using off-the-shelve, Open Source databases in a performant way?
 * How to deal with huge categories if the collation is changed?

Miscellaneous

 * User:Mike Dillon/Scripts/ancientGreekSortKey.js - normalization script for Ancient Greek, with and without case folding
 * http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6387 - Add ability to change category sort method on category page
 * No response from developers