Re: [libreoffice-users] sort order

see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_collation_algorithm
now the problem is "where is the "collation algorithm" of calc ? An 
algorithm which obviously has to change according to the language.....

Je la 12/03/2017 18:50, Gary Collins skribis :
> Thank you, yes it does. I got it to work with Greek iota which is about the least obtrusive. 
> Strangely (to my mind) some less obtrusive characters with higher unicode *dont* work. Its a bit of 
> a mystery whats going on, i can only surmise that there is somewhere a table of 'blacklisted' 
> characters which are not taken into account for sorting purposes. This new (ish) sort order lark 
> has been a right pain in the proverbials for me, generally speaking. I'll now just scour the table 
> in the hope of finding something even better but at least there is *something* that'll work
>
> Thanks,
> G.
> --------------------------------------------
> On Sun, 12/3/17, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>   Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] sort order
>   To: users@global.libreoffice.org
>   Date: Sunday, 12 March, 2017, 5:51
>   
>   At 17:58 11/03/2017 +0000, Gary
>   Collins wrote:
>   >I'd like to know if there is a character, preferably
>   some sort of
>   >discrete punctuation mark, that will come *after* z in
>   the sort
>   >order when using natural sort. My problem is that i have
>   some codes
>   >beginning Aa which really speaking should come after Z.
>   As a number
>   >of up to 3 digits follows the letter(s) in each case, im
>   getting A#
>   >followed by Aa# then B# which really wont do. I have to
>   use natural
>   >sort as i need eg A12 to come after A3. Ive tried a few
>   punctuation
>   >characters and some special characters but i cant find
>   one that
>   >works. Any light that can be shed on this would be very
>   welcome
>   >indeed. I really dont want to have to precede Aa with a
>   z if that
>   >can possibly be avoided.
>   
>   These are not punctuation marks, but a bit of
>   experimentation
>   suggests that any Greek character, upper or lower case, will
>   serve.
>   
>   I trust this helps.
>   
>   Brian Barker
>   
>   
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