1190347 - Folder list in subscribe window has differing sort order than 3-pane

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 231138

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Peter 'vt100' Schwindt]

Attachment: left: 3-pane window. right: subscribe window

3-pane windows's sort order doesn't honor upper/lower case when sorting folders, but the (IMAP) subscribe windows does.

See screenshot in attachment.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Which order are you suggesting is correct?
Should it be case insensitive?

Comment 2

[Peter 'vt100' Schwindt]

I would opt for case-insensitive.

Thanks for asking!

Comment 3

[:aceman]

This is true and the sort also may not be locale aware. We don't have the luxury of String.localeCompare() from JS in C++ code. But maybe there is some similar mechanism.
We could probably make the sorting case insensitive straight away, there is a plain strcmp() at https://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/base/src/nsSubscribableServer.cpp#521 and below.

Comment 4

[:aceman]

This also appears to be the same as bug 231138.

Comment 5

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Zibi, is there a C++ equivalent of String.localeCompare(). I'm quite sure there is.

Comment 6

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Well, you can just use the ICU function: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/intl/icu/source/i18n/ucol.cpp#441

Here's example of how we do this in SpiderMonkey: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/builtin/intl/Collator.cpp#407

Here's some example of how not to do this with a response on how to do this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6028339/icu-and-string-compare


HTH!

Comment 7

[wmbgzll]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #4)

This also appears to be the same as bug 231138.

Confirmed.