Thread:Extension talk:CategorySortHeaders/Tested/reply

The single ^ thing was intentional. I wasn't sure what best to do with it, and thought it was best to do the old behaviour if the sortkey didn't start with a ^text^ segment. You can do ^^ to denote having no header.

The reason I made sortkey without a ^foo^ part sort under the first letter is I figured that's kind of expected because that's the normal behaviour without the extension, and if it defaulted to the pagename, then we'd end up with a situation where every entry in the category would have its own header, and that's a lot of extra headers.

There was also some suggestion (at 90760) that instead of doing syntax, keep the pipe after the category behaviour the same as default mediawiki, and instead use syntax like, similar to how  works (atm I'm not planning to do that unless there is demand for such a feature, but that would allow people to use all characters in the headers on categories)