Hi, I need to sort a list of strings "german-style...

# javascript

[Alexander Stoppel]

Hi,
I need to sort a list of strings "german-style" in Kotlin/JS. This means, considering Umlauts and the letter "ß" (located between "s" and "t". Many SO-Comments recomend using java.text.Collator but I wonder if there is a js-way to do it since I cannot use the java imports due to project constraints.
e.g.:
listOf("Ä", "a", "A", "s", "ß", "?", "1", "2", "3") will be sorted as
[1, 2, 3, ?, A, a, s, Ä, ß]
but actually I need the following order
[1, 2, 3, ?, A, a, Ä, s, ß].
In SQL, COLLATE utf8mb4_german2_ci would do the trick. Does anybody know how I could get the same result using kotlin/js?

[Nikola Milovic]

Not sure if these two question solve your problem
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6909126/javascript-sort-with-unicode
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3630645/how-to-compare-unicode-strings-in-javascript

Basically this is pure JS question I'd say, and most of them recommend either use .localeCompare if the locale is set to german, if not then a brute force sorting algo should be written.

If anyone else can pitch in with a better answer

[Alexander Stoppel]

Hi @Nikola Milovic,
thanks for your reply! I went for the brute force algorithm. But still, its hard to imagine that this problem isn't common enough to have a kotlin/JS solution, especially since the .localeCompare is not directly available in Kotlin/JS