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Cool- I’m quite sure that you didn’t envisage it being used in the way that I have!
Fell free to use it as an example implementation.
The only problem with doing what I did was manually coding HTML underlines- but the time was worth it. I’m getting a good response to that page and only launched it yesterday. Thank you for providing the tool Jeroen.

Unfortunately I’ve never got around to learning PHP, although I’m familiar with HTML.

If you have a separate Name Directory plugin to test (ie that sandboxes the test data from the live version) then I’m happy to play around with any things you try regarding multi-character support.

Thanks Jeroen, you work quickly! The confirm delete is very helpful.

Making the plugin international-friendly sounds great, especially if unicode characters are to be supported.

Practically, this might require a bit of a change in the back end as different users will have different requirements. Extending alphabet lists to other alphabets such as Arabic is great, and it is clear that a letter starting with ع is going to want it as a standalone grouping. However, with Western accents and variants there is a wider range of possibilities. For example, some people would want a word such as être to be listed under e; others may want it to be listed it separately under ê.

My request would be to provide a way for the user to specify initial characters/character pairs that Name Directory picks up and lists as a separate items. For example, someone could specify ‘ê’, or in my case a multi-character pair of ‘ch’. Then there would be one heading for e and another for ê, or one for c and another for ch.

I don’t know how much work would be involved in this, but allowing the user to set their own preferences seems to be the simplest and most flexible solution, and better for you in the long term as you don’t have to become a linguistic expert and try to provide something that works for all users.

Happy to discuss further and/or test if you wish.