localization

[rotsee]

Very nice one! Would it somehow be possible to use localeCompare in the quicksort algorithm, so that we can use it on other languages than English?

[pozitron57]

Hi @rotsee, I use tsorter.js with Russian with no problems.

[rotsee]

@pozitron57 I should probably give an example: In Swedish å, ä, and ö comes after z in the alphabet. In German äand ö comes before (there is no å). There are thousands of examples where sorting depends on language and/or locale. localeCompare is a native string method making localized sorting possible, that has very good browser support: https://caniuse.com/#search=localeCompare (Hey, even IE6 has at least some basic support!)

Usage:

console.log('ä'.localeCompare('z', 'sv'));  // 1
console.log('ä'.localeCompare('z', 'de'));  // -1