[Building Sakai] Filenae sorting in Sakai 2

[Adam Marshall]

so what order would the list below be in if we used java.text.Collator ? 

Aren't there other alternatives like stuff from java.util?

adam 

| -----Original Message-----
| From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
| bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of David Horwitz
| Sent: 15 April 2010 15:13
| To: sakai-dev; i18n at collab.sakaiproject.org
| Subject: [Building Sakai] Filenae sorting in Sakai 2
| 
| Hi All,
| 
| I was looking into:
| http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-467
| 
| In which Matthew Buckett reported that sorting of files and folders in
| contentHosting is case sensitive. I looked into this also aware that
| there are i18n problems with many sorting methods in Sakai. Now the
| sort
| method is designed to mimic Windows explorer and Mac finder when it
| comes to sorting files with numbers in the names:
| 
| file
| file01
| file1
| file02
| file2
| file10
| 
| The sorting should also be case insensitive. Now I can see no easy to
| fix the case problem in the sort method or make it obey locale specific
| sort rules. Both of these can be done by using java.text.Collator in
| the
| process eliminating 50 lines of Sakai code, but we then loose the
| sortign behaviour described above.
| 
| What do people think?
| 
| David
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