[Gramps-devel] Name sorting (Collation)

[Tim L. <guy...@gm...>]

Summary
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Sorting is a mess because of trying to support different platforms  
which have different results and different bugs.

I have changed gramps34/trunk to use ICU/PyICU so we have a well  
defined common sort for all platforms.

In gramps34 the code falls-back to the existing code if PyICU is not  
there - I suggest for trunk/gramps40, we only offer PyICU.

I know that increasing the number of dependencies is generally  
undesirable, but it seems that incorporating PyICU/ICU should be  
pretty simple for all packagers, and I think this is justified by the  
number of problems that it fixes. Hope this is OK.


Details
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I have been trying to resolve a number of bugs relating to the sort  
order for names etc. in both the UI and in NarWeb.

At present, sorting gives many different results, for example for bug  
5088 [0] see the picture below.