Japanese Alphabetical Sorting for Manga Titles

[minahoku]

I am a Japanese user. When arranging Japanese manga titles in Komga, the A-Z sorting becomes meaningless, as all titles end up under the "#" section. While I understand this feature was designed for English-speaking users, it would be greatly appreciated if you could implement a sorting option based on the Japanese syllabary (gojūon) for Japanese users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goj%C5%ABon

[gotson]

I checked the code, the API already returns groups of series by first character, so if there's other characters than A-Z, they still get returned. The logic is on the webui side, where the grouping needs to happen, especially for non A-Z characters.

We could imagine having different setup for other languages. There's some points that would need to be clarified though:

• the list of first characters would need to be stored somewhere. Would that kind of grouping depend on the user or on the server (where the admin would decide for everyone)?
• for Japanese, the sort title would need to be in hiragana. You would need to edit metadata to change any kanji / katakana into hiragana so they get grouped properly.

[minahoku]

In my setup, I've set all manga sort titles to hiragana, which I believe makes it easy to sort accordingly. Given this situation, I think it would be best if sorting were managed server-side (where the administrator decides for everyone). However, this is just my personal opinion, and I'm not sure how it would work in other users' environments.

[gotson]

@minahoku i would need some insights on how to properly display / handle this.

Here is an attempt:

For the dakuten and handakuten, how is it usually handled ? How about the katakana, should they be grouped in their hiragana equivalent ?

[minahoku]

The sounds "が", "ぎ", "ぐ", "げ", "ご", "ざ", "じ", "ず", "ぜ", "ぞ", "だ", "ぢ", "づ", "で", "ど", "ば", "ぱ", "び", "ぴ", "ぶ", "ぷ", "べ", "ぺ", "ぼ", "ぽ" should not display buttons, and it is more natural to include "が" in the "か" button list, "ば" in the "は" button list, and "ぱ" in the "は" button list as well. For example, if there is a manga titled "はたらくさいぼう", "ぱられるぱらだいす", or "ばき", when you press the "は" button, they would appear in the order "はたらくさいぼう", "ばき", "ぱられるぱらだいす".

[gotson]

yes, i misread one of your comment.

Here is how it looks, with hiragana groupings shown, and it would filter both hiragana and katakana:

Including dakuten and handakuten:

Kanji would be grouped under #:

[minahoku]

Wonderful! This is exactly what I was looking for! Titles that start with kanji, alphabet letters, or numbers will be classified under #, so I believe this is correct. I'm looking forward to the update.

[gotson]

i still need to find where to store that setting, but at least i know that for Japanese it's well implemented. Will be working on the configuration/storage next.

[gotson]

It will be in the next release

[gotson]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in 1.20.0 (Release Notes)