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jtorque:
Maybe I am overlooking something here, but I have read the manual and cannot seem to find an answer to this. When looking at the artist or song list, most of the songs are in alphabetic order. Music with accents in the name, however, appear at the very bottom of the list instead of where it seems like they should likely fit into the list. The group "Änglagård," for example, should be near the top of the artist list instead of the bottom. Is there any way to correct this?

I must say that I am very impressed by the progress that has been made by Rockbox. I truly appreciate the efforts everyone has put forth to make such a great system.

Llorean:
The problem is that traditional simple alphabetical sorting algorithms don't tend to take into account accented characters, which actually show up in a completely different place in the standard character list. An algorithm to take this into account would in the end be significantly more complex, unfortunately.

pixelma:
Additionally these accented characters get sorted differently in different languages.

You provided a nice example: "Änglagård" (which I assume is a swedish name). In the swedish alphabet, the accented characters follow the non accented characters. The group starting with an "Ä" would be found correctly after the "Z". In other languages it would be sorted along the "A".

Llorean:
Of course the TSOP (and equivalent tags) would allow you to pick exactly how you wanted these included in the sort without every seeing whatever slightly incorrect name you used to put them there. ;)

AlexP:

--- Quote from: Llorean on May 24, 2007, 10:11:29 PM ---Of course the TSOP (and equivalent tags) would allow you to pick exactly how you wanted these included in the sort without every seeing whatever slightly incorrect name you used to put them there.

--- End quote ---

I had been trying to stay out of this argument, as enough people were already pointing out to lalittle why his idea was flawed, but this is yet another excellent point towards using TSOP. :)

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