Wikipedia:Lua/Modul/Sort/en

Sort – module with auxilary functions to create sortable keys.

• The sort functions (Tlatin left only) evaluate the first parameter as term to be sorted.
  • If there is no first parameter provided by #invoke the first parameter of surrounding template transclusion will be used.
• Optional parameters of #invoke specify input and result format and further capabilities.

Return value is always the sort key.

Alphanumeric terms in latin based scripts are reduced to basic characters of ASCII set.

Optional parameters

v

Variant

Default: ISO (simplify all diacritic characters; ligatures of two letters)

• DIN5007m2 (DIN 5007 Variante 2)

• Various typografic codes for spaces, horizontal dashes and invisible characters are reduced to ASCII.
• Multiple whitespace is reduced to single space.

Casing (upcased/downcased) will remain; that can be eliminated easily from result.

The value is 1 if the first string is lexical less than second string else empty.

Mandatory parameters, leading whitespace is significant

1

first string

2

second string

Version management

A test page illustrates results on input formats.

That is implemented by the module DateTime.

All functions described above can be used by other modules:

local lucky, Sort = pcall( require, "Module:Sort" )
if type( Sort ) == "table" then
    Sort = Sort()
else
    -- In the event of errors, Sort is an error message.
    return "<span class='error'>" .. Sort .. "</span>"
end

Sort.lex( adjust, apply, adapt )

Similar to Tlatin.

adjust

term (string)

mandatory

apply

base script (string)

• "latin"
• "cyrillic"
• "greek"
• "uni"

currently latin available only

adapt

variant (string, optional)

• "DIN5007m2"

Sort.failsafe( atleast )

Versioning interface similar to failsafe

atleast

optional

nil or minimum version or wikidata or ~ for synchronisation

returns: Version ID as string or false

Until 2023 Sort = Sort.Sort() has been recommended for initialization.

Follow the steps:

1. Copy main module Module:Sort into your project.
   • If possible keep the name Sort.
   • If another name is required due to conflict or naming convention or non-latin script then choose a different one.
2. Register this module at d:Q24205172.
3. Copy desired sub modules, and keep the chosen root name.
4. Ready.
5. Consider translation of doc page.
6. Consider Module:Sort/local adaption to local wiki.

Module:Sort/local, if present, permits local configuration.

simpleDatePattern

pattern for #time: – formatting one particular day

Default: j M Y

General library; no limitations.

No other than sub modules.

• Module:Sort/latin containing the collation table for latin based scripts.
• Module:Sort/latinDIN5007m2 containing the collation table for DIN 5007 Variante 2.
• Module:Sort/latinAT containing the collation table specific for Austrian.
• Module:Sort/latinCS containing the collation table specific for Czechoslovakian.
• Module:Sort/latinDA containing the collation table specific for Danish.
• Module:Sort/latinScand containing a collation table specific for scandinavian languages.
• Module:Sort/currency containing a collation table for currency symbols.
• Module:Sort/utf8max2bytes containing a collation table only reducing to 2 Bytes in UTF-8.
• Module:Sort/unquote supports discarding of quotation marks.
• Module:Sort/local adaption to local wiki.

• Module:Sort/cyrillic – containing collation table for cyrillic based scripts (Ukrainian etc.).
• Module:Sort/greek – containing collation table for greek scripts (polytonic).
• Module:Sort/uni – containing collation table for all (letter based?) script systems.

Not necessary.