value relation widget, wrong sorting of text

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)
Original Redmine Issue: 12494
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:edit_widget

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when a value relation is set, if a entry starts with an accented letter, then in the combo box this entry will show at the bottom of the list.

There is also a general issue with lists of numbers in the widgets, that are treated always as text, and this hurts quite a lot the usability of such tools.

[qgib]

Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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What's shown in the combobox is supposed to be a description for the key used in the attribute. Isn't using a number as description and edge case?

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• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Jürgen Fischer wrote:

What's shown in the combobox is supposed to be a description for the key used in the attribute. Isn't using a number as description and edge case?

but what about if the user "just" needs a combobox to allow choose quickly (and without errors) among a list of specific numbers? this is not an edge situation at all, and as it is now the user creates this list in the "value" column and gets a list that is ordered as text.

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• status_id was changed from Feedback to Open
• version was changed from 2.8.1 to master

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• regression was configured as 0
• easy_fix was configured as 0

[qgib]

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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End of life notice: QGIS 2.18 LTR

Source:
http://blog.qgis.org/2019/03/09/end-of-life-notice-qgis-2-18-ltr/

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• resolution was changed from to end of life
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed