From 58791345029fa5cfeb035f52ecefd5147bd158e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikolai Nyegaard <nikolai@nyegaard.io>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:01:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Preferences: list the languages alphabetically by their own
 name
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- English (and Auto where offered) stays first as the source language and fallback; the rest sort by native name with accents folded, so Čeština is under C and Magyar under M; Cyrillic and CJK names follow the Latin ones
- The list used the registry order, which is the order the languages were added
---
 crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs |  4 +--
 crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs    | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs
index 8b404378..ebab1505 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs
@@ -1984,8 +1984,8 @@ fn preferences(app: &crate::DesignApp, ui: &mut egui::Ui, d: &mut Dialog, max_he
                     egui::ComboBox::from_id_salt("pref_language").width(180.0).height(400.0).selected_text(crate::rtl::widget(ui, current)).show_ui(
                         ui,
                         |ui| {
-                            for (code, name) in crate::i18n::LANGUAGES {
-                                if ui.selectable_label(*code == app.ui.language, crate::rtl::widget(ui, *name)).clicked() {
+                            for (code, name) in crate::i18n::picker_languages() {
+                                if ui.selectable_label(code == app.ui.language, crate::rtl::widget(ui, name)).clicked() {
                                     // Applied by `show` right after this frame, which has `&mut DesignApp`.
                                     d.fields.insert("applyLanguage".into(), json!(code));
                                 }
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs
index efe089ef..60b827dc 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs
@@ -34,6 +34,16 @@ pub const LANGUAGES: &[(&str, &str)] = &[
     ("ka", "ქართული"),
 ];
 
+/// The interface languages in the order the Preferences picker lists them: English first (the
+/// source language), then the rest by their own name with accents folded, so Čeština sits under
+/// C. Names in other scripts follow the Latin ones in code point order: Cyrillic, Arabic,
+/// Georgian, then the CJK languages.
+pub fn picker_languages() -> Vec<(&'static str, &'static str)> {
+    let mut rest: Vec<(&str, &str)> = LANGUAGES.iter().copied().filter(|(code, _)| !code.is_empty()).collect();
+    rest.sort_by_cached_key(|(_, name)| name_sort_key(name));
+    std::iter::once(LANGUAGES[0]).chain(rest).collect()
+}
+
 /// English → [German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese].
 const TABLE: &[(&str, [&str; 5])] = &[
     // Menus.
@@ -5133,3 +5143,42 @@ mod tests {
         }
     }
 }
+
+/// `name` lowercased with the Latin accents that occur in language names folded away, so a
+/// byte-wise sort reads alphabetically. Other scripts are left as they are.
+fn name_sort_key(name: &str) -> String {
+    name.chars()
+        .flat_map(char::to_lowercase)
+        .map(|c| match c {
+            'à'..='å' | 'ā' | 'ă' | 'ą' => 'a',
+            'ç' | 'ć' | 'č' => 'c',
+            'è'..='ë' | 'ē' | 'ě' | 'ę' | 'ế' | 'ệ' => 'e',
+            'ì'..='ï' | 'ī' => 'i',
+            'ñ' | 'ń' | 'ň' => 'n',
+            'ò'..='ö' | 'ø' | 'ő' => 'o',
+            'ś' | 'š' => 's',
+            'ù'..='ü' | 'ū' | 'ů' | 'ű' => 'u',
+            'ý' | 'ÿ' => 'y',
+            'ź' | 'ż' | 'ž' => 'z',
+            c => c,
+        })
+        .collect()
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod picker_order_tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn picker_lists_english_first_then_names_alphabetically() {
+        let order = picker_languages();
+        assert_eq!(order.first(), Some(&("", "English")));
+        assert_eq!(order.len(), LANGUAGES.len());
+        let keys: Vec<String> = order[1..].iter().map(|(_, name)| name_sort_key(name)).collect();
+        assert!(keys.windows(2).all(|w| w[0] <= w[1]), "{keys:?}");
+        let pos = |code: &str| order.iter().position(|(c, _)| *c == code).unwrap_or(usize::MAX);
+        assert!(pos("cs") < pos("de"), "Čeština sorts under C");
+        assert!(pos("pl") < pos("ru"), "Latin names come before Cyrillic");
+        assert!(pos("ru") < pos("ja"), "Cyrillic names come before CJK");
+    }
+}