music_library/backlog/tasks/ml-141 - Support-records-with-accents.md

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id	title	status	assignee	created_date	labels	dependencies	references	priority
ML-141	Support records with accents	Done		2026-04-20 09:00			https://github.com/cloud8421/music_library/issues/7	medium

Description

GitHub: created 2024-12-07 · updated 2024-12-07 · closed 2024-12-07

SQLite's collation functions don't by default collapse accented characters into their non-accented variants. For example, an artist with sort name Åkerfeldt, Mikael is appended at the bottom instead of being grouped with A.

The records_search_index table behaves correctly (searching Aker matches the artist), but alphabetical sorting/grouping is broken for non-ASCII sort names.

Fix: ensure non-ASCII artist records are slotted at the correct alphabetical position.