Please specify the following:
Poweramp build number: build-979-bundle-play [979004-b6cd2e6]
your device model: Sony Xperia 1 II XQ-AT52
your Android version: Android 13
your custom ROM name/version: LineageOS Official 20-20230727-NIGHTLY-pdx203
steps to reproduce: Install, import a large number of media containing tags in CJK scripts (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, etc.), then open any category eg. Album Artist.
As you may see in the attached screenshots, ALL non-latin/CJK characters are nested below the alphabetical scrollbar in the # section, instead of being properly sorted alphabetically according to their romanization (romaji/pinyin). This makes navigating a large library of East Asian media extremely cumbersome and unusable, as one would have to scroll to the bottom and then scroll down even further to manually find the media to play. Currently the characters appears to be sorted according to their Unicode number, as Hiragana appear before Katakana characters in the order of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana_(Unicode_block) and Kanji and Hanzi comes after in the order of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CJK_Unified_Ideographs,_part_1_of_4.
The proper way should be either: 1. Merging the CJK-tagged media into the alphabetical scrollbar according to their pinyin/romaji romanization (あ->A, 安->A), and make them appear after the Latin-tagged media in each section. AND/OR 2. Add into the scrollbar a hiragana section to sort Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji according to their https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gojūon romanization.
Both options have issues regarding how to sort media tagged in CJK Unified Ideographs (Hanzi & Kanji), as they are shared between the CJK languages and may have drastically different romanizations depending on language. IMO the app should give the user an option in the settings on how to intrepret the Hanzi/Kanji media in their library. eg Settings->Library->"Sort CJK characters in the order of" with the options being Pinyin (Chinese), Gojuon (Japanese) or Hangul (Korean). If the option selected is Pinyin, then the CJK Unified Ideograph characters should be merged with the Latin alphabet sorting, while if the option selected is Gojuon, then extend the scrollbar to add a Hiragana section to sort all CJK characters (Hiragana, Katakana block and Unified Ideograph block) in the Gojuon order. If the user choose to sort in Pinyin or Hangul order, for example, but still have media tagged in Hiragana and Katakana, then the scrollbar should also be extended to accomodate Gojuon sorting for these characters.
Sorry for all this request, but really hope CJK sorting is implemented. I've been a loyal customer for likely 10 years now and have used Poweramp from Android 4.0 to 13. I'm not familiar with programming for Android but I trust there must be libraries you can import to add the fuction into the app? Thank you so much and love your app!!! ❤️