Sorting of dependant fields is wrong

[Robby Stephenson]

On Monday 26 February 2007, Jens Seidel wrote:
> > thing that has occurred to me is that I could check to see if both
> > strings in the comparison start with a number, even for a text field,
> > and then if so, do a numeric comparison. That might be a bit intensive
> > but would work how you seem to expect it to. Comments?
>
> Mmh, now that I know about dependant fields I do not know whether this
> is necessary. Maybe I will find later it would nevertheless be a good
> idea but currently I think the proper fix would be correct handling of
> dependant fields.

There's correct, and then there's correct. :) The vies don't know anything 
about dependent fields. They just ask each entry for the value for a 
certain field, and on the backend, the values are combined.

> > > Another minor issue: If I add the real number "4,5" to a text field
> > > ("," is the locale specific decimal separator) it is rewritten to "4,
> > > 5". No space is added if I enter "4.5".
> >
> > I think I got that fixed, too. It's a long leftover item from when I
> > was using a comma as the separator value.
>
> OK. Let's hope there is no locale which uses ";" as decimal separator :-)

Very true... :)

Robby