Sorting of band names in local iTunes versions

Hi All,
since the update to iTunes 5 band names beginning with an article like "the", "le/la/les", "die" etc. are only correctly sorted in their regarding local version. E.g. German iTunes won't sort "The Beatles" behind the "Beach Boys", unless the user adds the other languages' articles to the Contents/Resources/[country].lproj/Localizable.strings file in the iTunes.app package. Does anybody know whether Apple is going to straighten this out, maybe in 6.0.2, or do I have to go on tampering with the program files?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Arne, Welcome to Discussions.
Nobody here knows for sure. We are all users, just like you.
I'm sure it's on the list of improvements though.
See Kays' post on this, here: Kay Marczoch, "Wrong alphabetical order if artists begins with "The"" #1, 09:47am Oct 16, 2005 CDT for a fix.

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b that's
unusual ...
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