Re: [Maposmatic-dev] [PATCH 3/6] Add by-letter maps pagination

[Jeroen van Rijn]

> Hum, that's a very good call. The problem is that if we consider
> non-[A-Z] first letters, then the "by-letter selection" becomes very,
> very long. But if we want to be truly i18n-ized, then we must support
> it.

How about this? Group unique starting characters into a list, sort
taking UTF8 collation into account, then slice it up into a reasonable
number of indices (depending on the number of pages and characters in
the list). So you might have:

/maps/[0-9]
/maps/[AÃÄÁÀÂBCÇDEËÉÈÊ]
/maps/[F-K]
/maps/[L-OÕÖÓÒÔ]

And so on, which could vary depending on the number of maps. If one
letter has an overwhelming amount of entries further paging could be
considered, like: /maps/A/1

Regards,
Jeroen.