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# announcements

[poohbar]

val nejkulaťoulinkatějšíKolečko = Circle(5f, 5f, 10f)

[kirillrakhman]

poohbar: czech language will always have a special place in my heart

[poohbar]

Great! 🙂

[kirillrakhman]

I had to write a sort function for my app once and a czech user informed me that in the czech alphabete, there is a letter consisting of two letters

[kirillrakhman]

how awesome is that? 😄

[than_]

yep. 'ch' is hell 🙂

[poohbar]

yeah ch .. but it's printed as two letters..

[poohbar]

you are right that I would expected alphabetic sorting to go e f g h ch i j 😄

[Czar]

not only in Czech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch_(digraph)

[kirillrakhman]

you know those scroll bars that display the first letter of the category you're scrolling to?

[kirillrakhman]

Turns out one letter is not enough

[kirillrakhman]

tom scott would have field day with this 😄

[mg6maciej]

cz ch rz sz dz dż dź are also in Polish, but I would not expect e.g. ch close to h even tho they sound the same. 😕

[poohbar]

Maciej, are the two-letter sounds you listed understood as a letter of their of their own? When you are reciting your alphabet?

[mg6maciej]

Nope. These are just taught in primary school as mono-sound digraphs.

[poohbar]

i see.. well ch in czech is an actual letter.. so thats why we would expect it to appear at its own spot in sorted string

[mg6maciej]

Does Java string sorting handle it well for your Locale? 🙂

[kirillrakhman]

@mg6maciej there's https://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/Collator.html for this

[mg6maciej]

I know. First thing you learn when you want to write app in Polish.