Problem with special characters/operators in the post title

So you are asking to have multiple values for name_divider. Please update to 17.0.32 and see if that works. https://mctagmap.tugbucket.net/options/name_divider/

as for:

It also doesn’t show the title Granizo
It should be under ‘#’

where does it show? If I test locally with #posttitle it does sort that under #

• This reply was modified 6 months, 3 weeks ago by tugbucket.

Problem 1: I have “Asteroid City” before #Granizo

If I change “Asteroid City” to draft, the list entry ” disappears and #Granizo appears where it should.
And there is no problem with a title starting with ( .

Problem 2: A Toy Story – Alles h?rt auf kein Kommando

Because of the A and the separator | the title appears as Alles h?rt auf kein Kommando, A Toy Story
but with : or – or . instead of | it shows only as ‘A Toy Story -‘ unter the letter T without Alles h?rt auf kein Kommando

name_divider doesn’t work. I already use title_divider, and if I add | to it it has no effect.

If I change the title to “Asteroid City“ (with a different quotation mark character) it works, though the new quotation mark appears now between the alphabet and the numbers.

Is there a way to sort special characters before numbers before alphabet?

Please update to version 17.0.33

How should A Toy Story – Alles h?rt auf kein Kommando be displayed?

notice though:
A Toy Story – Alles h?rt auf kein Kommando
is not the same as
A Toy Story – Alles h?rt auf kein Kommando

the first is an en dash or em dash and the second is a hyphen. So if your shortcode is using a hyphen and your title is using a en or em dash, then those are not the same characters and it will not sort properly.

Using: A Toy Story – Alles h?rt auf kein Kommando (note a hyphen) and using the shortcode of:
[mctagmap show_posts="yes" show_navigation="yes" name_divider="|,-,+" title_divider="A" sort_alpha="a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z" sort_alpha_extras="last"]
displays: Alles h?rt auf kein Kommando, A Toy Story and sorted under “A”

‘
As for sorting the special characters after number, see the new value “last” https://mctagmap.tugbucket.net/options/sort_alpha_extras/

so add to your shortcode :sort_alpha="a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z" sort_alpha_extras="last"

that should produce:
letters
numbers
others

• This reply was modified 6 months, 3 weeks ago by tugbucket.

My shortcode is now
[mctagmap show_posts=”yes” show_navigation=”yes” title_divider=”The, Ein, A, An, Eine, der, Der, Die, die, das, Das, La, Le, L’, Les, Los, El” sort_alpha=”a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z” sort_alpha_extras=”last” multi_page=”yes” post_type=”post, filme” responsive=”yes” columns=”2″]

name_divider has no effect at all in this case.

You can see, how it sorts: https://screenmagazin.com/filme-az/

The title is A Toy Story | Alles h?rt auf kein Kommando
but it shows as Alles h?rt auf kein Kommando, A Toy Story under A

When I use any other (or none!?) separator, it shows as A Toy Story (plus separator) under T without the rest of the title

I could live with that, but I rather would have it listed under T

Also I cannot merge the special characters ( ? ? é ? ? “ into the related or next letters…

@samofnine I have a fix for the title_divider but before I push an update, can you explain more about:

Also I cannot merge the special characters ( ? ? é ? ? “ into the related or next letters…

I’m not 100% sure what you mean by “related or next letters”

While #, “, ( and ? appear before the first letter of those titles, where they should be listed under, ?, é, ? and ? should be sorted under c, e, o and i respectively. I tried your sorting version with ?c|?“ , but this destroys my site output.

Multi language characters should always be sorted into its equivalent like
a á à a ? ? or c ? ? ? or s ? ? ? ? etc.

For a full list of characters see here: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/a.htm

But you only need the most common.

For example:

Los (casi) ídolos de Bahía Colorada is listed under ( because Los is a title_divider exception, so the title should be sorted under c for casi.
And ?Que viva México! should be listed under q
while L’ état et moi, currently listed under é (because L’ is a title_divider exception), should be listed under e.
And “Asteroid City“ should be listed under a etc.

I don’t know if it has something to do with the last update, but tags in my index tag map with ‘&’ in it are now shown as ‘&’ – i.e. ‘Adil & Bilall’ (tag name: ‘Adil & Bilall’)

In the map of post titles ‘&’ is correctly shown as ‘&’