Reply To: browing artists: sort order for objects with "the"

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dfsuther
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Any chance you could also implement correct Mc and Mac sorting?

The rule (last time I asked a professional librarian) is that names beginning with Mc or Mac come before all the other M’s but after all the Ls. The rule applies whether or not there’s a space, but requires a capital letter at the beginning of the rest of the name. So: McThud, Mc Thud, MacThud, and Mac Thud are all actually the same name and should sort identically (ahead of the Ms), but Macthud doesn’t follow the McMac rule, and sorts normally.

To complete the set of examples, Mac thud would follow the Mc/Mac rule, but is just plain incorrectly capitalized. It should really be Mac Thud, instead.

Dean