Bug: Non-English alphabetical sorting has gone out of whack

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Thanks!

And I was simply asking for clarification of what you meant by the phrase “…should no longer be seen…” and what the implications were for those of us with non-English alphabets. :slightly_smiling_face:

I’ve been a Beta/QC tester of various software for non-figuratively literally 30 years, so I’m more than happy to participate in iteration and feedback, but not if your intent is to write non-English media out of the software. If you are now intentionally designing the platform to not support non-English alphabets, I’d prefer to know that so I don’t have to wait for a resolution that will never come.
The current situation makes me angry every single time I browse my library. So, every day. :smile:

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Any updates on a fix for this problem yet?

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Sorry for the late response but nothing new to report.

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I’ll keep asking: Any updates on a fix for this problem yet?

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Sorry, nothing new to report.

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I’m surprised it has only been an issue for icelandic for a year, I reported a wacked sorting for danish years ago and never got a reply. I think the only workaround we scandies could come up with on reddit was changing æøå to z, to move them near the end.

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Yeah, as you say, we could technically put the ÝÞÆÖ movies to the rear by adding z in their sorting order, but that’s still wrong, and doesn’t fix the Á, É, Í, Ó and Ú ones. :smiley:

Doubtless this is a far worse problem in languages like Hungarian, with their (if I remember correctly) 4 different types of accents on every vowel. :roll_eyes:

Also makes me wonder about all the other scripts/languages, like the Asian, Arabic and Cyrillic ones for example. Does Plex just not sort any language properly except English? Or are we Western Europeans / Scandinavians just specifically unworthy of having our libraries properly sorted and browsable? :thinking:

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I have half an idea to make a little piece of software that reads the title of all your videos in a library, makes an alphabetical list, and renames the sorting-title of all your videos like 0001, 0002, etc, according to that list., but figuring out the sorting-part sounds like it might be hard, and you would need to run it every time you added a video. Also, I shouldn’t have to, figuring out sorting should be the job of the good people at Plex.

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Yeah, that would of course sort the movies in an order, but would make the alphabetical jump list entirely useless, since all the movies would just go under # :grinning_face:

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