User:Mike Dillon/Sorting

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Discussions

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Existing guidelines

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Issues

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  • Sort keys
  • 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?

Searches

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  • //en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=sorting&ns4=1&fulltext=Search
  • //en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=collation&ns4=1&fulltext=Search
  • //en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=Unicode&ns4=1&fulltext=Search

Miscellaneous

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