Question type is dropdown list. I have a list of 26 items in 3 languages. These should be sorted alphabetically, which works fine. However, we have an additional 27th item which should be displayed as the first item in every language, followed by all the others in alphabetical order. This used to work by naming the first item "- Item 1 -", the dashes forcing this item to be sorted in position 1. However, this apparently changed and LimeSurvey now ignores any special characters while sorting a dropdown list. How can I force a single item to the first position?

Version 3.25.0+201117

Hm,
I do not see an issue (3.25.16)

German:
   

English:


Joffm

Thanks for checking this out. Could it be because of the underlying database system? I've been testing this on a LimeSurvey installation on PostgreSQL. But we're moving it back to MySQL, so this might resolve this issue.