Version: 1.3.9 (using KDE 3.5.2, Kubuntu Package 4:3.5.2-0ubuntu18 dapper) Compiler: Target: i486-linux-gnu OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.15-23-386 My language is Spanish (UTF8) and I have songs whose title starts with an accentuated character, as "Érase una vez...". In Konqueror, it appears in the right place, understanding the "É" as an "E", but in amaroK it appears at the end, after the "Z".
1.3 is too old. Please update to 1.4.X and test. Anyway, you didn't even say where it's shown wrong. Collection Browser? Context Browser? File Browser?
I have tested it in version 1.4.2 and it still happens. I appears in the Collection Browser. Anyway, it is curious. For example, I have an artist called "Álex" and a song called "Érase...". In the first nodes of the tree view (artists) "Álex" is well-sorted, in the "A" section. But in the subtree of songs, "Érase..." appears at the end. I use UTF-8 in my system and ISO-8859-1 in the mp3 tags, but I suppose this is not the problem, because the name tag and the artist tag have the same encoding.
I think this problem is related to this bug, so rather than create a new report I'll state it here: I have songs by many Japanese artists (whose names begin with kanji). In the tree view of the collection, they are each in their own group (their names all begin with different kanji, which is rather common since there are several thousand kanji). For example: 安 * 安室奈美恵 宇 * 宇多田ヒカル 浜 * 浜崎あゆみ Grouping names by first character is appropriate for alphabetic scripts, but for idiographic scripts with several thousand characters, I don't believe it is the way to go. The easiest, but possibly not best, solution would probably be to simply group han characters together. (Amarok 1.4.0)
Well Tom, in your case, your better off with this feature off, I guess. I don't see how we could make it work for idiographic scripts.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135823 ***
Tom and Alexandre: I think it would be the best way to sort the Kanji (and other Chinese characters) according to their traditional radicals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kangxi_radicals This is also the way, it is sorted in Japanese kanji dictionaries. In that case, you can sort 安 and 宇 under Radical 40: ⼧ (U+2F27) and 浜 under ⽔ (U+2F54). They are all included in Unicode in a seperate code Chart, according to their strokes, so sorting would be no Problem, just in the order they are included in Unicode: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2F00.pdf I think the only problem would be to know what Radical a certain character has. Does the Unihan database solve this? If so, I think it would be no problem to sort a Chinese Characters according to the radicals. By the way, I have a band beginning with ム (Katakana) and another one with 이 (Korean). They are both sorted under ム. Because I only have these two, I don't think of it as a problem, but if my entire collection would consist of bands written with these scripts, this would be unconvenient, I think.