Sorting compound names

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 9/20/04 6:08 PM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:

> The method route won't work, because the Valentina functions aren't
> robust enough to handle what needs to be done (e.g. multiple words to
> ignore, multiple names in a field, etc.). The tmp table method I
> outlined before will work though, I think.
> 
> I agree with your point about inconsistencies between languages,
> regions, etc. My application is international, and is used by folks
> from the US to Europe to Asia.
> 
> I would offer "German/Dutch/whatever" sorting as an option the user
> can set a runtime. It will basically ask what words are to be ignored
> when sorting records by name, so it's generic. I imagine most users
> will not want it. But for those who do (i.e. the non-anglophilic
> person you quoted above) it should suffice.

What wonder me.

That user have blame you that you do not like German.

Does exists German apps which can do this task?

May be some of them open sources?

Then you can study how



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