Add option to override system locale for sorting

[pavel-machyniak]

Environment

• Visual Studio version: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2019/16.11.2
• CodeMaid version: 11.2
• Code language: C++

Description

When I want to sort chunk of lines, eg.:

current
changes
case

I end up with this result:

case
current
changes

And I would expect this:

case
changes
current

I think the issue is due to the fact that my Windows has locale setup for Slovakia/Slovak language, where ch is treated as special letter with ordering between h and i. I do not want to change my Windows locale for this to work correctly. I would like to have a setting for codemaid, where I can override default system locale.

Steps to recreate

1. Setup Windows locale for Slovakia/Slovak language
2. Type following lines into c++ file:

current
changes
case

3. Select the block
4. Let codemaid to do the sorting of the block

Current behavior

Lines are in this order:

case
current
changes

Expected behavior

I would like to have it sorted as in english locale:

case
changes
current

Thanks

[codecadwallader]

Thanks for the suggestion. We do leverage StringComparison.CurrentCulture for sorting and in a few other places. It seems like for most users we would want to stick to that option but in your case you would want a configuration option to set that to StringComparison.InvariantCulture?

https://github.com/codecadwallader/codemaid/blob/dev/CodeMaid/Integration/Commands/SortLinesCommand.cs#L117

[pavel-machyniak]

Thanks for the reply. I think StringComparison.InvariantCulture would not help, it probably applies only more rules. Instead I would like to have an option to specify the culture (via GUI, registry, ...) and use it instead of the default CurrentCulture:

myCulture = "en-US";
...
StringComparison.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(myCulture);