Question

I’m dealing with some displaying issues when my android device lang is set to Japanese/Chinese, is there a way I can query the SQLite data order by pronunciation or stroke for asian words?

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated!

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Answer 1

In SQL, the comparison/sorting algorithm is called a collation.

SQLite would allow to define additional collations in its C API, but this is not exported in the Android SQLite API.

You could either

• read the data into memory and sort it in your code; or
• precompute a sorting key from your data and store it in a separate database field that you can use for sorting.