Sort of content by FAMILY NAME, GIVEN NAME

[Almucheck]

The sorting of adresss book entries by "FAMILY NAME, GIVEN NAME" is absolutely necessary for the daily use of the Ubuntu Phone. This should be a must have for an address-book-app! All the old Nokia phones can manage this. Please add this fuction.

[Markus Eisen (autobahn)]

Hi there!

First of all: Thanks to anybody who invests all the time in developing this great stuff!

I use a bq Aquaris E5 with UT15.04 (OTA11) and I am also affected by this bug and I think I know, why the amount of affected users is so small - compared to the importance of the contacts-application: It's a hidden bug!

I started my adress book by importing something from my SIM card (I don't use gmail, owncloud, ect.).
The SIM card came from my previous phone and there the parts of the names were assigned correctly.

Initially, my contacts seemed to be sorted by the familiy name and therefore, I didn't see a problem.

By entering a new contact manually later, I figured out that all the first names in my imported list were assigned to be family names and vice versa. I stumbled across this fact, because Brian Smith was not listed between Joe Sanders and Peter Smith but between Jack Adams and Francis Cooper.

So I exported all my contacts to my desktop and exchanged all family and first names in an excel sheet created with vCardGrid and re-imported the resulting vcf-file (via sending it to myself per mail and opening the file with the contacts app (after removing al old contacts, of course)).

Now, I got the same bug as the thread starter.

I would really support to establish a function that allows the user to choose by what fact of a contact data set the list is sorted. (Maybe someone could benefit from an descending order of the zip codes as well...?)

Thx,
Markus