From 264f9fd31eeb27630de663658de259e32d912ea9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yuksel <yuks86@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:06:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Create turkish-string.js

Sorting in Javascript for Turkish Characters. This plug-in will replace the special turkish letters (non english characters) and replace in English.
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 sorting/turkish-string.js | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 sorting/turkish-string.js

diff --git a/sorting/turkish-string.js b/sorting/turkish-string.js
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+/**
+ * Sorting in Javascript for Turkish Characters. This plug-in will replace the special
+ * turkish letters (non english characters) and replace in English.
+ *
+ *  
+ *  @name Turkish
+ *  @summary Sort Turkish characters
+ *  @author [Yuksel Beyti](http://yukselbeyti.com)
+ *
+ *  @example
+ *    $('#example').dataTable({
+ *       'aoColumns' : [
+ *                       {'sType' : 'turkish'}
+ *       ]
+ *   });
+ */
+
+jQuery.extend( jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.oSort, {
+	"turkish-pre": function ( a ) {
+		var special_letters = { "İ": "ib", "I": "ia", "Ş": "sa", "Ğ": "ga", "Ü": "ua", "Ö": "oa", "Ç": "ca", "i": "ia", "ı": "ia", "ş": "sa", "ğ": "ga", "ü": "ua", "ö": "oa", "ç": "ca" };
+        for (var val in special_letters)
+           a = a.split(val).join(special_letters[val]).toLowerCase();
+        return a;
+	},
+
+	"turkish-asc": function ( a, b ) {
+		return ((a < b) ? -1 : ((a > b) ? 1 : 0));
+	},
+
+	"turkish-desc": function ( a, b ) {
+		return ((a < b) ? 1 : ((a > b) ? -1 : 0));
+	}
+} );