[mythtv-users] MythWeb Title sort order

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Dec 4, 2007, at 5:54 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:

>
> Sorting by Title in MythWeb's search results leads to "Halloween"  
> sorted
> before "A Hard Day's Night" and "The 'Burbs" sorting before "About a  
> Boy",
> probably because the sort is excluding "A" and "The".

>
>
> This seems wrong, even though I can understand the intent. I can  
> understand
> dropping "The" because I do it in my music collection, but dropping  
> "A" is
> not something I'd expect or have ever seen anywhere before, and I  
> wouldn't
> use it in my own sorting.
>
> Bug, or over-eager algorithm?


A and The are dropped (among others). It's on purpose. For an example  
of dropping "A" when before a title, see iTunes.

' comes before A to 'Burbs is before About. I suppose preceding quotes  
should be added to the list of things ignored while sorting.

-Brad