Normalize sort title from comicinfo.xml

[sonostrass]

Steps to reproduce

Before, thanks so much for this incredible tool I use for nearly 2 years

Step 1 - add files with series title containing accents
Step 2 - See how it's sorted. in Komga

Expected behavior

I wrongly assumed this was solved in 0.109.1 version.
I would have liked the alphabetic order being respected as if there where no accent:

• é or É considered as E
• î or Î considered as I
• ç or Ç considered as C

And better, a feature to manage characters sorting (like force ignoring # as first title character)?

Actual behavior

Wrong order in cards:

or in classification:

Logs

No response

Komga version

1.3.1

Operating system

Windows 11

Other details

Jar execution

Acknowledgements

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[gotson]

The name displayed on the card is not used for sorting. Check the sort title field.

[sonostrass]

Hi Gotson,
Thanks for your hint.

All my metadata comes from Comicrack comicinfo.xml. Since this tag does not seem available, Sort field in Komga is the same as title (Serie or book itself).
I don't have any tool to mass change my whole collection, and even so, it seems imho pretty logic from here that alphabetical order is not impacted by accent...

All my gratitude again for your involvment!

[sonostrass]

Or I do a mass update directly in SQLite to update all sorting first letter based on my own rules.
Yeah. That's somehow a solution. I can manage this, but it's not very user-friendly.
And I hope I won't break something with such a database manipulation.

[gotson]

That's a comicinfo.xml limitation indeed, as it doesn't have a field for the sort title Komga uses it as is. I guess we could strip accents, similarly to what we do in folder names.

[sonostrass]

thanks a lot!