[Gramps-devel] Sorting error without PyICU

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

Devs,

I know that there is a log.warning that if you don't have PyICU
installed, localization will be impaired, but I find that sorting with
regular ASCII names is wrong without PyICU. For example, in the flat
person view, I get the following order:

"Blank, Edward"
"Blankenship, Laura"
"Blank, Frank"

That is, it seems that the ", " are effectively ignored. I think that
this is because of the grampslocale sort_key, Python 2.7, and no
PyICU. The error goes away if PyICU is installed.

So, one of two things:

1) we should change the warning so that it is more dire (eg, "Sorting
operations will be incorrect")

or

2) there is a bug in the sort_key function when no PyICU

I don't know enough about the locale to see if it is a bug that can be fixed.

-Doug

PS - Yes, I really have a "Frank Blank" in my tree. Frank apparently
had a cruel father, or perhaps Hank was just getting back at his
father.