compilemessages: Sort language list with Unicode Collation Algorithm.

Right now the list of languages in Display settings → Default language is sorted in an unintuitive order due to the varying case conventions: British English Chinese (Taiwan) Deutsch English Hindi Indonesian (Indonesia) Lietuviškai Magyar Malayalam Nederlands Português Română Tiếng Việt Türkçe català español français galego italiano polski suomi svenska česky Русский Українська български српски فارسی தமிழ் 日本語简体中文繁體中文 한국어 Fix the sort to use the locale-independent Unicode Collation Algorithm: British English català česky Chinese (Taiwan) Deutsch English español français galego Hindi Indonesian (Indonesia) italiano Lietuviškai Magyar Malayalam Nederlands polski Português Română suomi svenska Tiếng Việt Türkçe български Русский српски Українська فارسی தமிழ் 한국어 日本語简体中文繁體中文 Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
2025-10-31 20:13:46 +00:00 · 2020-10-21 14:38:45 -07:00
parent 1abae8baaa
commit efa8dd3a47
5 changed files with 15 additions and 2 deletions
--- a/zerver/management/commands/compilemessages.py
+++ b/zerver/management/commands/compilemessages.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from django.core.management.commands import compilemessages
 from django.utils.translation import override as override_language
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
 from django.utils.translation.trans_real import to_language
+from pyuca import Collator


 class Command(compilemessages.Command):
@@ -45,7 +46,8 @@ class Command(compilemessages.Command):
                del lang_info['name_local']
                lang_list.append(lang_info)

-            lang_list.sort(key=lambda lang: lang['name'])
+            collator = Collator()
+            lang_list.sort(key=lambda lang: collator.sort_key(lang['name']))

        with open(output_path, 'wb') as output_file:
            output_file.write(