Dictionary index words sort case insensitive

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• Dictionary index words sort case insensitive #485

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Sort dictionary index words without case differences

What Changed

• Dictionary index entries are now ordered without treating uppercase and lowercase letters differently.
• Words that only differ by case now appear in a consistent order in the index.

Impact

✅ Predictable dictionary browsing
✅ Consistent word order
✅ Easier lookup for mixed-case entries

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated (UTC)
vachan-admin-v2	Ready	Preview, Comment	May 14, 2026 4:47am

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Suggestion: Using lower() does not provide full Unicode case-insensitive ordering, so words with special case mappings (for example ß/SS or Turkish İ/i) can still be sorted incorrectly. If this endpoint is intended to be truly case-insensitive for dictionary data, normalize with casefold() (optionally with Unicode normalization) in the sort key. [logic error]

Severity Level: Major ⚠️

- ⚠️ /dictionary/{id}/index returns inconsistently ordered Unicode words.
- ⚠️ Dictionary browsing harder for languages with special casing.

Steps of Reproduction ✅

1. Ensure a DICTIONARY resource exists in `db_models.Resource` with `resource_id=1` and
`content_type='dictionary'`, which is validated in
`backend/app/crud/content_crud.py:22-35` within `get_dictionary_index`.

2. Insert rows into `db_models.Dictionary` for that resource where `word_forms` (queried
at `backend/app/crud/content_crud.py:38-41`) contains comma-separated Unicode words with
special case mappings, e.g. `"Straße,Strasse"` or `"İstanbul,istanbul"`.

3. Call the HTTP endpoint `GET /dictionary/1/index` defined in
`backend/app/router/content.py:15-39`, which invokes
`content_crud.get_dictionary_index(db_, resource_id=1)` at
`backend/app/router/content.py:31-34`.

4. Observe in the JSON response that within each `letter` group (built at
`backend/app/crud/content_crud.py:58-66`), the `words` list ordering is determined by
`entries.sort(key=lambda x: x[1].lower())` at `backend/app/crud/content_crud.py:314`;
Python `str.lower()` does not implement full Unicode case-folding (e.g., `ß` vs `ss`,
Turkish `İ` vs `i`), so ordering for such characters is not truly case-insensitive.
Changing the sort key to use `x[1].casefold()` (optionally combined with Unicode
normalization) would provide more correct case-insensitive ordering for dictionary entries
containing these characters.

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**Path:** backend/app/crud/content_crud.py
**Line:** 314:314
**Comment:**
	*Logic Error: Using `lower()` does not provide full Unicode case-insensitive ordering, so words with special case mappings (for example `ß`/`SS` or Turkish `İ`/`i`) can still be sorted incorrectly. If this endpoint is intended to be truly case-insensitive for dictionary data, normalize with `casefold()` (optionally with Unicode normalization) in the sort key.

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