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Unitful values for display and comparison
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Author: thaoeuns

Description:
Markup should be added to support attaching units to values; so that the values can be displayed easily (not everyone can type °), so that they can (potentially) be converted to other meaningful units as in bug 235, and so that sorting can be done better than alphabetically. Sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits by the last column and the order is nonsensical. This problem is noted there on the discussion page, but not addressed.


Version: unspecified
Severity: trivial
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235

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bz24642

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 10:59 PM
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Lots of different issues here.

(In reply to comment #0)

Markup should be added to support attaching units to values; so that the
values
can be displayed easily (not everyone can type °),

They can type ° Also there's toolbars to insert special characters

so that they can
(potentially) be converted to other meaningful units as in bug 235,

Tracked by bug 235

and so
that
sorting can be done better than alphabetically. Sort
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits by the last
column and the order is nonsensical. This problem is noted there on the
discussion page, but not addressed.

Somewhat tracked by bug 30674 but not really. Realistically we would require users to add sortkeys to each column themselves to make this happen. This has been hacked around by template:Ntss


Closing worksforme for the first issue mentioned.