Sort criteria by language

here is a patch for it.

Ah ok, Perhaps i will time to write this handler.

Same here; need to be able to sort by language.

Subscribing this would be a really cool feature.

Subscribing - would be useful for me too in listboxes used in node reference fields.

It sor'ts but the language.

Committed to 3.x branches.

updating version

sorry for opening an old issue, but is it hard to backport this to views 2?

Sorry, no features will be backported to Views 2; the only changes that will go into Views 2 are critical bugfixes (and even that is iffy as there are not enough people currently maintaining Views to pay attention to current stuff, let alone something old like Views 2.)

Ok I understand. i changed it to a support request, as it seems that custom sort-handlers aren't soo uncommon, and i'm sure someone already has it.

Now I tested views 3 in D 6 and i understand that the patch was committed, but it s in fact not an resolving the op's question, to be able to sort by the current language.

Just to explain what is in my POV the use case:

I have nodes which can be - and are being - translated. I don't want to limit the view to displaying only translated nodes, because in some languages there are hardly any nodes, and the English ones will do, too. However, I do want the view to first display translated nodes in the current language, and then display nodes in other languages, so not mixing untranslated and translated nodes, hence sorting by (active) language.

The patch didn't provide this, it just provided sorting by language name, ignoring which is the current active language.

Okay, I'm not so much of a custom module writer, so I hacked the default 'random sort' to sort on the set language, default language and secondary, on node title. Works for me both with Views 2 and Views 3.
Be sure you don’t have a table sort on as it overrides other sort criteria.

Just backup /sites/all/modules/views/handlers/views_handler_sort_random.inc and replace it with the attached file.

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