Sorting Large Garages

[Axel Slingerland]

I don't know if this is actually what SCS would call a "bug" or not. It might just be that I don't know beans about the Swiss and Polish alphabets. But I noticed that when you sort large garages alphabetically, that Lodz shows up at the bottom of the list, after Zurich. Sorry, my KB is not set up for some of the characters used in these names in their native languages as they appear in the game and in this list. It's an American KB, after all. However, Google Maps lists both cities that same way. That is why I thought this was at least worth mentioning. It is is intentional, feel free to delete this thread. (There is no need to keep it if it's useless...)

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[ohaha]

Probably the game sees it as a special character and places it after the last normal letter.
The alpha-numerical ordering differs from one system to another.
e.g. I saw systems where non-capital letters go first, followed by capitals. But, the game uses a different system, and you can clearly see that in the order your mods get loaded: digits first, then capitals, then non-capitals... I think it's some Linux based ordering...

[Axel Slingerland]

Oh well... It seemed odd, so I posted it. But your idea seems quite plausible. Stranger things have happened on Windows based computers.

[Cadde]

While the question doesn't target the same language. The underlying library does.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/1098160

Basically, it depends on what sorting algorithm and locale you are using.
And what is happening here (in game) is that "ä" = char(228) comes long after "z" = char(122), so it's sorted after z rather than a.
Numbers are sorted before abc...xyz because they appear at char 48 - 57.

http://www.ascii-code.com/

EDIT:

"Ł" isn't part of the standard extended ascii table. So i used "ä" instead.
But the same pretty much applies for unicode if you sort by their position in the table.

In other words, SCS just needs to use a different sorting algo.
But here's where we get into regional differences and localization. Nightmare i tells you. NIGHTMARE!

[Axel Slingerland]

In other words, SCS just needs to use a different sorting algo.

No, I don't think so. I did not think like the computer geek I used to be, and if I had I would have realized what was happening right away. Ten years ago I would have realized what was going on there right off, and wouldn't have given it a second thought. Now days, I need a memory upgrade... And a processor upgrade probably would most likely do me a lot of good as well! [ external image ]

[Max]

there is simple char code sorting, thus all not-so-standard characters will be after "Z". most of the time its not a big issue, only Lodz has such character on first place.

and would you read release notes for beta you would see that in 1.14 this was handled by adding special sort string for cities like Lodz ..