Locale aware sorting of strings in Plone

Asked Aug 07 '12 at 13:55

Active Aug 07 '12 at 14:58

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The standard approach for storing a Plone catalog query using

result = catalog(..., sort_on='sortable_title')

is not very useful in reality since the sorting rules differ by country and language.

This is some build-in functionality for sorting a list of strings (or objects) for a given locale?

The standard trick for switching the locale of Python temporarily is not suitable since it is not thread-safe.

Any options?

edited Aug 07 '12 at 14:58

Martijn Pieters

asked Aug 07 '12 at 13:55

Andreas Jung

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Does [Sorting list of string with specific locale in python](http://stackoverflow.com/q/11121636) help? – Martijn Pieters Aug 07 '12 at 14:57
Switching locales inside a multi-threaded application is not appropriate as you should know. – Andreas Jung Aug 07 '12 at 16:38
That's why I linked to that question, it provides context-specific locales. No switching. – Martijn Pieters Aug 07 '12 at 17:22

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