Sorting of tags stopped using leading punctuation

tuomasgreen · July 3, 2014

I have been using different leading punctuations in order to have different categories (types of items etc.) to be easily seen, so that I write ... or . in front of the tag to sort it at the top of the tag selector.

All of the sudden this stopped working today. Now my tags are only sorted by the alphabets, so my system got broken. For example, a tag starting with ...g was sorted at the top yesterday (I think), and today it is between other tags starting with g.

I have the latest version of MLZ, tried disabling all other addons to no help, operating system Win7. Only new thing I did was that I removed the automatic tag New, but the problem might have started before that (didn't catch this at first).

tuomasgreen · July 3, 2014

And this seems to affect my collections, too. So now my *** current -collection isn't at the top, but below others. This doesn't seem to affect numbers, they are still sorted okay.

dstillman · July 3, 2014

This change was intentional to address punctuation within words — leading punctuation was an accidental casualty. We'll fix that for the next version.

More details:

https://twitter.com/heyther/status/483644844565602304

(And this isn't MLZ specific, so I've adjusted the thread title to reflect that.)

aurimas · July 23, 2014

This will be fixed in the next Zotero release https://github.com/zotero/zotero/issues/514

dstillman · September 19, 2014

This was fixed in 4.0.22.