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How does the Index sorting work? [message #637468]

Fri, 05 November 2010 12:44

David Cagle
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Registered: July 2009

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Can someone please provide a brief overview of how the Index sorting works? We are having problems with Simplified Chinese not sorting correctly and index entries with accented characters being placed at the end of the Index for French and Spanish.

My understanding is that EclipseHelp combines all the Index contributions into a master index and then sorts. Does it sort the index entries if there is only one Index contribution?

Thanks!

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Re: How does the Index sorting work? [message #637510 is a reply to message #637468]

Fri, 05 November 2010 18:04

Chris Goldthorpe
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Since Eclipse 3.5 Eclipse has used the com.ibm.icu bundle to perform sorting and this handles accented characters correctly, here is an example from the User Assistance test suite.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=182541

I'm not so familiar with the sorting for Chinese.

See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=248079 for more information. If you are using an older version of Eclipse than 3.5 the sorting of international characters will have problems.

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Re: How does the Index sorting work? [message #637712 is a reply to message #637510]

Mon, 08 November 2010 08:53

David Cagle
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Thanks Chris! I was able to find that '248079' bug report before I left on Friday! We are currently using version 3.4.2.

Thanks for the info, I will pass it along!

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Re: How does the Index sorting work? [message #660107 is a reply to message #637712]

Wed, 16 March 2011 16:34

David Cagle
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Are secondary index entries sorted as well? Our French translator is seeing a problem where secondary index entries are not sorted correctly. I've attached a picture. I believe they are using version 3.4.2 as well. In the picture, the secondary entry that begins with "objectif" comes after "Parameters". Does the index just not sort secondary entries or is the lowercase letter throwing things off?

http://sww.sas.com/~dacagl/French_Index.png

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Re: How does the Index sorting work? [message #660319 is a reply to message #660107]

Thu, 17 March 2011 17:05

Chris Goldthorpe
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David Cagle wrote on Wed, 16 March 2011 16:34

You may need to reattach the image, that did not seem to work. The index should be sorted using the same algorithm at each level.

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Re: How does the Index sorting work? [message #660461 is a reply to message #660319]

Fri, 18 March 2011 10:40

David Cagle
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Registered: July 2009

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Sorry about the image Chris!

I think it is a content problem. The one the translator had a question about is an entry inside of an entry. So it would not be sorted with the other top-level entries.

<entry keyword="analyse de sensitivite">
   <topic href="mo/html/analysisparms.htm#p1osti9p7zcm66n1v3do830u5w03"
             title="Parame'tres"
             label="Parame'tres"/>
  <topic
href="mo/html/p0bdp29b7h7a3xn1bkxgxmo5rsz3.htm#p0ycddbb57pnarn165qaua5nmub8"
             title="Definir l'objectif"
             label="Definir l'objectif"/>
      <entry keyword="objectif secondaire">
         <topic href="mo/html/analysisparms.htm#p1kx5mrp2sie9on1ceue3p2cghmw"
                title="Options avancees"
                label="Options avancees"/>
      </entry>
</entry>

Thank you for the reply!

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