Android sort sqlite query results ignoring case

Question

just wondering if theres a way of sorting the results of a query ignoring case. Cause at the moment fields starting with an upper case letter are sorted and put on top of th

Answer 1

ORDER BY column COLLATE NOCASE;

See http://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html#collation

Answer 2

Convert all entries to lower case for example: select name from table order by LCASE(name)

LCASE or LOWER (Check documentation)

Answer 3

On the Android you are given a collation function called LOCALIZED.

When you specify your column, do the following:

CREATE TABLE song(..., title TEXT COLLATE LOCALIZED ASC, ...)

It works great. If you have the Android source code, just do a search for "COLLATE" to see all sorts of examples.