Template talk:Recipe

When should the sort key be specified?
Can someone please give some examples of when this template is to be used? For example, should Döner kebab use the sort key "doner kebab", Cookbook:Gözleme the sort key "Gozleme", Cookbook:Phở bò the sort key "Pho bo", or Cookbook:Pâté chinois the sort key "Paté chinois", and why does this template issue a warning message when the sort key is specified? Shouldn't the sorting algorithm automatically take care of special signs like "å", "ä", "ö", "ü" etc. and replace them with appropriate symbols? It feels like recipes would be prone to end up at arbitrary positions in the Recipes category otherwise, if people could specify sort keys manually (like they can now). —Kri (discuss • contribs) 12:35, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
 * [I saw your comment on mw.org] The sort algorithm currently orders things by unicode code point of the uppercase equivalent (which is horrible), so accented things are way out of place. There is experimental support for better sorting in MediaWiki. It is not enabled on this wiki. The warnings probably come from multiple . They can be avoided by doing  . See mw:Help:Magic words for details. Bawolff (discuss • contribs) 17:20, 20 June 2012 (UTC)