[Tickets #7458] Re: Turba letter sub page only has sub pages for ascii names

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7458
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  Ticket             | 7458
  Updated By         | janne.peltonen at helsinki.fi
  Summary            | Turba letter sub page only has sub pages for ascii
                     | names
  Queue              | Turba
  Version            | 2.3
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Feedback
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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janne.peltonen at helsinki.fi (2008-10-08 10:07) wrote:

> Well, and how would you want to fix that? It might be easy for Ä,  
> though it's already harder than it looks like, to map it to A. But  
> how about characters not from latin1 charsets, like cyrillic,  
> chinese, japanese, etc.?

Could you use the collation information of the locale to determine the  
set of initial characters that should be shown? (I'm not completely  
familiar with how locales work in this respect.) A Finn would expect  
to see in the end of the initial letter list the local letters "Å Ä Ö"  
when using his/her own language, and so would a Swede... a Russian  
would like to see the list of cyrillic characters (maybe in addition  
to the latin letters, for Western contacts). I don't know what a  
Japanese or a Chinese would like to see...

A completely different way to attack the problem would be to determine  
the actual initial characters from the actual contacts of the user,  
sort them according to the selected language's (locale's) collation  
rules and only show those initial characters in the list. I think that  
Cyrillic locales, for example, also contain collation rules for latin  
characters.