[mb-users] Sortingorder Dutch tussenvoegsel

[Alex Dupuy]

Kuno Woudt wrote:
> 
> Of course, musicbrainz probably sorts it like this right now:
> 
>  Bruin, Baukje
>  Bruin, de, Akke
>  Bruin, de, Hilbert
>  Bruin, de, Rinske
>  Bruin, Jan
>  Bruin, Wytze
> 
> Which is not correct either :)
> 


Thomas Tholén wrote:
> 
> Ouch. Now we're all of a sudden touching a real problem that I didn't see
> before. How in the h e double hockey sticks do we tackle this? We can't
> just
> put an extra comma in each and every sort name, can we?
> 

What's worse, even if you did put an extra comma in every sort name, I don't
think it would have any effect - I believe that MB sort comparison converts
all (runs of) punctuation and spaces into a single space before doing the
comparisons for sorting.

@alex
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