Sorting of contacts with foreign characters in the name
Hello,
I have a large address book, some with Japanese characters in their name.
I'm on English Language setting for the OS on my iphone and ipad.
All the contacts with Japanese characters in their name seem to get pushed to the # section of the alphabet rather than at the equivalent roman alphabet letter.
Also note that adding the Japanese name in the secondary fields of "phonetic first" and "phonetic second" of an existing Roman English based contact sends this to the # section.
This is poor sorting of contacts.
Very poor....
After posting this I found a solution. I hadn't tried it this way round.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/7589528#7589528
Go into one of your Japanese contacts and click edit.
Go right to the bottom of the edit page and add field, add phonetic first name, then repeat the step to add phonetic last name.
Now edit the name of your contact, keep their name in Japanese and enter the phonetic spelling in English.
Smashin.... :-)
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