Unicode blocks can no longer be sorted in Unicode order

Bug #628992 reported by Nikki
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GUCharMap
Fix Released
Medium
gucharmap (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gucharmap

Ubuntu version: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Package version: 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1
What I expected to happen: Unicode blocks are sortable in Unicode order, like in previous versions.
What happened instead: Unicode blocks are only sortable alphabetically.

Up until 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1, all the versions of gucharmap I've used have displayed the blocks in Unicode order, but when I upgraded to 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1 it now only sorts them alphabetically. This seems to be the opposite of bug #479330.

I found the old behaviour very useful because related blocks are generally grouped together (e.g. hiragana and katakana are next to each other, the Indian scripts are together, ...). After all, if I'm viewing by blocks, I'm probably quite interested in the actual Unicode structure, because I can just use view by script if I don't care about that.

Perhaps it could be split into two separate options, so that there's "view by script", "view by Unicode block (alphabetical)" (new behaviour) and "view by Unicode block (Unicode order)" (old behaviour).
To make it clearer that the Unicode order one is ordered by the position in Unicode, it could maybe even include the first codepoint in the name (something like "U+0000 Basic Latin" followed by "U+0080 Latin-1 Supplement" followed by "U+0100 Latin Extended-A", etc).

Revision history for this message
Mechanical snail (replicator-snail) wrote :

I agree; reorganizing Unicode blocks is counterproductive since script view is available.

Revision history for this message
sirald66 (sirald66) wrote :

Script view is a 'polar opposite' to the unicode blocks and and their functional purpose. We obviously have two completely different needs, but its just programming. Options for both should be easily doable.

Tom Adams (holizz)
Changed in gucharmap:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
Changed in gucharmap:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gucharmap (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in gucharmap:
status: New → Fix Released
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