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

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Comment	>> 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.
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