Ignoring punctuation in SortableNames.compare results in unexpected sorting #7

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opened 2024-10-03 21:12:22 +00:00 by ardouglass · 0 comments

ardouglass commented

2024-10-03 21:12:22 +00:00

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5e07814edb/src/sortable-names.ts (L372)

This was enabled to ensure sorting an array like ["D'arcy", "Darcy", "Darby"] would return as ["Darby", "D'arcy", "Darcy"] and not ["D'arcy", "Darby", "Darcy"].

This works with letter by letter sorting, but for a list of authors, people probably expect word by word sorting. For example, Dick, Philip K. should sort before Dickey, Eric Jerome.

https://github.com/ardouglass/sortable-names/blob/5e07814edb743c483869790429d099a0ab110789/src/sortable-names.ts#L372 This was enabled to ensure sorting an array like `["D'arcy", "Darcy", "Darby"]` would return as `["Darby", "D'arcy", "Darcy"]` and not `["D'arcy", "Darby", "Darcy"]`. This works with letter by letter sorting, but for a list of authors, people probably expect word by word sorting. For example, Dick, Philip K. should sort before Dickey, Eric Jerome.