alpha index and umlauts (ä,ö,ü)

Hi there,

my alpha index seems to fail for german umlauts (Ä,Ö,Ü,ä,ö,ü): I do have items starting with Ö, but my alpha index shows this letter not as link, as if there were no such items.

In category_alpha.php I see calls to
FLEXIUtilities::uniord()
and
FLEXIUtilities::unichr()

Could it be that one or both of these functions fail in case of such characters?

(My 'missing' item's titel starts with 'Ö', it's alias of course starts with 'oe'.)

thanks a lot,
kath

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FC 2.0.2 r1679
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Hello, did you try to add aliases like this:

-- (e.g for Greek):
Α~ΑΆαά !! Ε~ΕΈεέ!!Ι~ΙΊιίϊΐ!!Υ~υύϋΰΥΎ!! ...

-- e.g in your case maybe something like:
A~aäAÄ!!O~oöOÖ!!U~uüUÜ

Ok, what worked was this (in menu item params > "override: Parameters: Alpha-Index, Search, Filters"):
"Custom AI Character Aliases" > "a~aAäÄ!!o~oöOÖ!!u~uüUÜ!!".
(instead of setting these params per menu item I could have done it globally or per category aswell, I guess..)
This lets my "Ö"-items appear inside my "O"-item-list and the client is happy with it.

What did not work as expected, however, was this:
"Custom Alpha Index List" > "[default]=a,ä,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,ö,p,q,r,s,t,u,ü,v,w,y,z!!0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9"
AND
"Custom AI Character Aliases" > "ä~äÄ!!ö~öÖ!!ü~üÜ!!"
which would nicely separate "Ö"s from "O"s. Any idea why this is (not) happening?

kath wrote: What did not work as expected, however, was this:
"Custom Alpha Index List" > "[default]=a,ä,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,ö,p,q,r,s,t,u,ü,v,w,y,z!!0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9"
AND
"Custom AI Character Aliases" > "ä~äÄ!!ö~öÖ!!ü~üÜ!!"
which would nicely separate "Ö"s from "O"s. Any idea why this is (not) happening?

Can you say how it behaved ?

e.g. the character ä is displayed but it yields not results with ä or Ä
or it yields results with ä only and not results with Ä

Can you say how it behaved ?
e.g. the character ä is displayed but it yields not results with ä or Ä

^this.
In detail: ä is displayed like an empty character (without link) after i configure to not skip empty AI characters.
If I let FC skip empty AI characters, ä is ommitted in the AI.

kath wrote:

In detail: ä is displayed like an empty character (without link) after i configure to not skip empty AI characters.
If I let FC skip empty AI characters, ä is ommitted in the AI.

Hello, this is good information,
i will open an issue in bug tracker not to forget to to test this case:
Issue 586