Sort movies without using sorttitle (in case of accented characters)

[Omertron]

Original issue 1908 created by Omertron on 2011-05-05T17:34:28.000Z:

Hi,

I have to modify so many NFOs to include sorttitle that I wonder if it would a hard job to use indexing.character.replacement from skin.properties: 1) First you transcode each character in the movie string using the table specified in indexing.character.replacement. It will give you a new string with no accented characters 2) You use that string to sort the movies instead of the original movie name, the same way you do with sorttitle.

I don't know how difficult it can be, but it would be very useful for all languages with accented characters. No more need to use sorttitle then.

Of course sorttitle could still be used when the problem is not accented characters.

Thanks for reading me!

[Omertron]

Comment #1 originally posted by Omertron on 2011-05-06T08:16:47.000Z:

Sort title is used to sort the movies on the index page, not to index the movies.

For example if you have a movie with the title "Blade Runner" and the sort title "zzz" then the movie will be on the index page "B" but sorted last (Assuming no other movies are named "zzz")

Are you asking that the sort title also have the indexing.character.replacement applied to it as well?

[Omertron]

Comment #2 originally posted by Omertron on 2011-05-07T06:04:11.000Z:

That's exactly what I meant!

[Omertron]

Comment #3 originally posted by Omertron on 2011-05-13T11:19:30.000Z:

Yes, I am asking that the sort title, wherever it comes from (