��sort by the initials of Chinese Pinyin

[kent58958 0]

How can I do to make film titles sort by the initials of Chinese Pinyin?

Thanks a lot.

[Luke 37179]

 

 

the initials of Chinese Pinyin?

Hi, what exactly does this mean? Can you explain more? thanks.

[kent58958 0]

Thanks for your reply.

It means the first letter of chinese pinyin.

For example, the chinese name of Batman is 蝙蝠侠, and the chinese pinyin of 蝙蝠侠 is bianfuxia, so the first letter is “b”.

[Luke 37179]

So just sorting on the Chinese characters is not enough?

[ss1969 0]

So just sorting on the Chinese characters is not enough?

Sorry to say that, but current (latest version in Oct,2019) sort of Chinese titles is completely useless, it cannot be used to locate titles. 

 

In Chinese language, you can sort characters by two ways mostly: PinYin or strokes. Most of us use PinYin。

 

As explained above, "蝙蝠侠"（aka "Batman") can be translated into PinYin as "Bian Fu Xia", then the Chinese way to sort them is using "bianfuxia" alphabetical.

 

here're some example document on this method:

 

https://blog.csdn.net/lgx040605112/article/details/6042316

https://blog.csdn.net/yeshennet/article/details/52288410

https://github.com/lisposter/sort-by-pinyin

 

or you can google for "Chinese Sort" for more infomation

 

This feature is very important when you have to locate one in hundreds of movies.

[Luke 37179]

Thanks, that's useful info. We'll take a look.

[ss1969 0]

Thanks, that's useful info. We'll take a look.

again, I found something maybe useful: the web interface of emby cannot sort Chinese titles correctly, but the EmbyCon in Kodi can sort them correctly. 

[Luke 37179]

Thanks for the feedback.

[trott90 20]

On 10/30/2019 at 1:40 AM, Luke said:

Thanks for the feedback.

@Luke,  can you take a look at this,  currently the sort and alpha picker is useless for chinese unless it is done by pinyin

[Luke 37179]

We'll take a look at it. Thanks for reporting.

[hisune 3]

I have open sourced a tool that enables emby to support pinyin sorting of movies and TV series

There is no problem with self-testing. If anyone think this tool can help you, you can click on a star.

https://github.com/hisune/emby_pinyin

[Happy2Play 8332]

12 hours ago, hisune said:

I have open sourced a tool that enables emby to support pinyin sorting of movies and TV series

There is no problem with self-testing. If anyone think this tool can help you, you can click on a star.

https://github.com/hisune/emby_pinyin

Do you mind creating a topic in the plugin section?

[hisune 3]

5 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

Do you mind creating a topic in the plugin section?

No, not at all.

[vic4728 2]

Third-party library: pinyin4j.jar can be used for Chinese pinyin sorting