Forwarding this to wikitech-l, since it's probably more relevant there.
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Subject: Sort order in Thai Wikipedia
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:03:13 -0500
From: [LiM] Manop <manop-LYoGGuqGVYgAvxtiuMwx3w(a)public.gmane.org>
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Newsgroups: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc
Hello,
I'm wondering where I can find how to fix the sort order in Thai Wikipedia.
The problem is that, in Thai language, words starting with a vowel alphabet
need to use the second alphabet (consonant alphabet) as the sort key but the
Mediawiki always use the first alphabets sorting by its unicode.
I searched some and found out that someone already asked this question in
bugzilla.wikimedia.org (
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164)
(#32, Oct 05). And also the related one is already mentioned in unicode
collation algorithm for Thai/Lao (
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/ in #3.1.3 Rearrangement). And
also I found someone talking about LC_COLLATE in English WP for sorting
specific alphabet order (but I really don't know about this).
Thank you for any answer.
Regards,
Manop
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