Thread:Project:Support desk/Sorting Tibetan content in Category page/reply (3)

While it may appear to collate the Tibetan correctly, upon closer look, it does not. If you notice, all of the entries are merely in order as the characters appear. In Tibetan "Alphabetization", it is a bit more complicated. For instance "བསྒྲུབས་"and "སྒྲུབས་" should all appear under "ག་", but on mediawiki it does not, the first would appear under "བ་" and the second would appear under "ས་".

This is a an issue that has been addressed many different way by various software engineers in the world of Tibetan language, but no standard has yet been developed.

See The Current Status of Sorting Order or Sorting Dzongkha and Tibetan Unicode in MySQL through a Custom Collation for more info (though outdated info)