Sort order & locale

[ropery]

So sorting by name/title doesn't seem to work in the Chinese locale.

In contrast, the Contacts app sorts names correctly, i.e. by the pinyin of the characters. If LC_COLLATE is respected this should just work... I can't figure out what order Notepad is putting those in right now...

Edit: actually, the sort order Notepad is currently using is the same as when LC_COLLATE is C. For example,

$ printf '%s\n' 中 国|LC_COLLATE=zh_CN sort 
国
中
$ printf '%s\n' 中 国|LC_COLLATE=C sort          
中
国

The former is in pinyin order, while the latter is the same order Notepad is producing.

Edit: To clarify, the above wasn't produced in the shell on the phone, but a separate PC. I have now tried it in the shell launched via adb shell, and to my surprise, not only is there no locale command, but setting LC_COLLATE doesn't do anything; it produces the order as if LC_COLLATE is C or just unset. Don't know if this is relevant... I guess this adb shell is probably restricted in some way.

[farmerbb]

I'm simply using Arrays.sort and a Comparator to sort the notes by name, unless I'm missing something then any other sorting errors would be an issue with the OS.

[ropery]

Well, I don't know what the code really does, but a little search seems to indicate java.text.Collator should be used, as by the android launchers which sort app names correctly, trebuchet, launcher, more.

Edit: First results from Googling "compareToIgnoreCase locale"
compareToIgnoreCase does not take locale into account
String is largely ignorant of Locale

[farmerbb]

OK, give the latest version a try, I'm using Collator inside my Comparator now instead of compareToIgnoreCase.

[ropery]

Totally fixed 👍