- Problem
- Paging for languages (e.g in list of users, page by first name or last name), is nearly impossible for foreign languages such as Japanese.
- Proposal
- To support the paging of foreign languages, we propose to use additional field(s) in the database. For example, a user can have a first name initial and a last name initial, and every glossary will have an initial depending on the name of the glossary entry. A function, in lang/xx.php will be needed to do this paging. When a new entry is created, e.g. a new user is added, the additional fields, such as first name initial and last name initial is precalculated prior to inserting the entry into the database. Apparently a mapping is required to do the paging calculation, for every language.
Idea/patch from chinese forum (Chinese language only):
