[chaley]

Originally Posted by Man Eating Duck

I'm all for new features, but please make this one optional, or at least with selectable collation algorithms as you can do in mySQL.

In Norwegian, common collation of oø and aå is wildly incorrect, in fact 'a' and 'å' resides respectively at the beginning and end of our alfabet

For names you might also consider language-specific collation. For instance "van Eeden, Frederik Willem" should be collated under E.

It won't be optional. It is, or it isn't. Otherwise the development isn't worth the trouble.

I presume you would use a library for this, which one?

No library. Uses unicode codepoint groupings, the same ones that are currently used for cleaning file names.

I have looked at using unicode sorting libraries. The amount of work to do so is enormous, and I have no desire to do it.

Edit: for names, that is under your control. Enter the sort string using the 'manage authors' function available by right-clicking on any author in the left-hand tag pane.