# Localized Sort Not supported

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/localized-sort-not-supported/4512>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 1, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/localized-sort-not-supported/4512 "2011-06-01T05:15:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Weiwei\_Wang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@Weiwei\_Wang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Weiwei_Wang)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/localized-sort-not-supported/4512/1 "2011-06-01T05:15:29Z")

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when i use SortBuilders to get a SortBuilder, I can not set the locale  
of the SortBuilder and as a result the sort result for my  
language(Chinese) is not correct~

Help~Waiting for help~

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**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/localized-sort-not-supported/4512/2 "2011-06-01T09:21:06Z")

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On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 22:15 -0700, Weiwei Wang wrote:

> when i use SortBuilders to get a SortBuilder, I can not set the locale  
> of the SortBuilder and as a result the sort result for my  
> language(Chinese) is not correct~

Have a look at the ICU plugin:

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clint

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**Author:** ![Weiwei\_Wang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@Weiwei\_Wang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Weiwei_Wang)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/localized-sort-not-supported/4512/3 "2011-06-02T07:58:26Z")

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thanks a lot, already done~

On Jun 1, 5:21 pm, Clinton Gormley [clin...@iannounce.co.uk](mailto:clin...@iannounce.co.uk) wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 22:15 -0700, Weiwei Wang wrote:
> 
> > when i use SortBuilders to get a SortBuilder, I can not set the locale  
> > of the SortBuilder and as a result the sort result for my  
> > language(Chinese) is not correct~
> 
> Have a look at the ICU plugin:
> 
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/i)...
> 
> clint

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/localized-sort-not-supported/4512/4 "2017-07-06T04:04:54Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:04am UTC