Q: Collating Sequence Problem for Contact Sort on Win iCloud (Turkish sorting)
I am using Turkish in names of my contacts. Turkish has extra characters to A-Z alphabet.
They are capital and small versions of ccedilla(çÇ), gbreve (ğĞ), scedilla (Şş), o-umlaud (öÖ), u-umlaud (üÜ), capital i with dot (iİ) and dotless-i (ıI).
For example my first name starts with capital i with a dot on top, İhsan.
Some other name examples are Çetin, Şamil, Ümit, Ömer, Çağla....
I have almost 2000 contacts in my outlook and on iCloud as synchronized as well.
These characters have all their olaces on Unicode table.
And there is a Turkish collating sequence that governs sorting of contact names.
In my case I see my contacts in Microsoft Outlook (Windows), and also on iCloud web site.
When I login to www.icloud.com I see a perfectly sorted contact list according to Turkish collating sequence.
But When I list contacts in Microsoft Outlook as presented by iCloud for Windows Extension, contacts are not sorted properly and names starting with these special characters are listed either at the beginning or at the end.
Problem can be comfortably attributed to iCloud extension because when I copy same 2000+ contacts from iCloud contacts folder to a native Microsoft Outlook folder, they are sorted perfectly. Outlook can sort them according to Turkish sort sequence. This is a very annoying problem that also affects find and replace too. A-Z characters have a fixed positional offset on Unicode table while locating capital and small versions. But these extra characters do not have same fixed offset and due to that when I search for ç I cannot find Ç or vice versa.
So sort is OK on iCloud web site and Windows based Microsoft Outlook native contacts folder but not OK in the iCloud contacts folder presented by iCloud extension on Windows.
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Posted on Sep 21, 2016 5:15 AM