Locale Sort

golyo

I'd like to use localeCompare function, when sorting string, or html types.
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_localecompare.asp

The language can be choose on site, and we set it on session. So localeCompare should work well.

We have to hack sort to each language (like hungarian, polish, ...), because I can't find the way, to use localecompare.

My hack:

var translate_re = /[a,á,e,é,i,í,o,ó,ö,ő,ü,ű]/g;

var translate = {
    "a":"aa","á":"ab","e":"ea","é":"eb","i":"ia","í":"ib","o":"oa","ó":"ob","ö":"oc","ő": "od","u":"ua","ú":"ub","ü":"uc","ű" :"ud"
};

var hun_accute = function (d) {
    return d.replace(translate_re, function(match) {
            return translate[match];
        });
};

var _orig_html_pre = $.fn.dataTable.ext.type.order['html-pre'];
$.fn.dataTable.ext.type.order['html-pre'] = function ( d ) {
    return hun_accute(_orig_html_pre(d));
};
var _orig_string_pre = $.fn.dataTable.ext.type.order['string-pre'];
$.fn.dataTable.ext.type.order['string-pre'] = function ( d ) {
    var r = hun_accute(_orig_string_pre(d));
    console.log(r);
    return r;
};

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allan

There is a plug-in which uses localeCompare, and I even included it in DataTables core at one point, but the performance was poor and the results sometimes completely wrong!

There is a new i18n API in Javascript which I'm going to write a sorting plug-in for soon (WebKit are in the middle of adding support for it, and Firefox already has it. Not sure about Chrome).

Allan

golyo

Thx for quick answer.

The type can be html, string, numeric, special enums... as I see.
The language is an other concept.

I can handle special columns, but want to use advantages of auto detect api.
Think use localCompare (or not) should be in settings, because its the same usages for all languages.

Golyo

golyo

Maybe
jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.localeCompare should be use as default, can be override, with fastest, optimalized plugin.