Reference Module Headings with Special Characters

Omeka S Modules
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Hi,

This issue is specifically about the Reference module (3.4.47) page block running on Omeka 3.2.3 and can be seen here: https://ibali.uct.ac.za/s/bvf41/page/people. Not sure if it is worthy to be an issue because maybe it is more a customisation kind of thing.

If you click on the 0-9 heading it takes you down where you will see a lot of names that begin with special characters. So they are grouped correctly. However, what we would like is to have this appear at the top of the page, and to change the label 0-9 to be basically one of each of the special characters:

ǀ ǁ ǂ ǃ

Now the thing is that we recently upgraded to Omeka 3.2.3 from 3.2.1 and I could almost promise that we had it exactly how we wanted - the heading at the top bar and in the body was created out of the first characters (instead of 0-9), and they were the first thing on the list.

Is there something we could change in the common/reference.phtml code to make this happen? Is it something that was happening in an earlier version of the Reference module?

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So we discovered that the issue might have come from not having the php extension intl installed. We had recently done a server os upgrade, which is when the issue came up. Installing PHP: intl - Manual got us back to having the special characters under their own heading and not under 0-9 anymore.

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