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Originally Posted by HarryT
H Does the Kobo just take the last element of the name as the surname? That's not very smart!
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The authors list sort does that, the author sort used for the books list is smarter:
A name in the form "Miller Jr., Walter M." is sorted under M for Miller, the comma indicates that the name is in the form LN, FN and jr. is recognised as a name suffix.
You can also present the name as "Walter M. Miller Jr." and it will recognise that Miller is the last name and sort under M.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Presumably the same issue would arise with two-part surnames that are not hyphenated? Eg, Alexander McCall Smith's surname is "McCall Smith", and should be sorted under "M", not "S".
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For the author sort in the books list that can be solved by using a no-break space to join McCall and Smith, or by presenting the author name as LN, FN format, but for the authors list the no-break space doesn't work.
The fundamental problem that this thread notes is that the authors list uses a new dumber sort algorithm when there is already a much smarter algorithm that has worked perfectly well for years in other parts of the firmware.