[Bug 427568] Re: Please sort programs in a even more locale-friendly way (by using python-pyicu)

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

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Title:
  Please sort programs in a even more locale-friendly way (by using
  python-pyicu)

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: software-store

  The listing of programs right now is sorted by name.  But it seems to
  sort by character code (i.e. strcmp).  You can see this falling down
  when there are accents in the program name.

  I propose that it should instead sort using the unicode algorithm for
  sorting in a locale-sensitive way.  Different languages have very
  different sorting rules.

  I recently did this with the Ubuntu installer ubiquity, and found the
  python wrapper for libicu to be useful (python-pyicu).  It can be used
  to generate collation keys for a given key in a given locale.

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