How to ignore opening quote in views sort I use views to display a sorted list of book titles. Titles that begin with a quote are listed first. I want to ignore the quote for sorting purposes. So, instead of:


"Once Upon a Time": Fairy Tales in Reality
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Best Book of Fairy Tales


I want:


Grimm's Fairy Tales
"Once Upon a Time": Fairy Tales in Reality
The Best Book of Fairy Tales


It appears the Views Natural Sort module will handle this, but it's still in Alpha for Drupal 8. Is there another, relatively straightforward (non-custom-code if possible) means of accomplishing this?

I've read a number of posts addressing more complex situations with fairly complex solutions, but it seems something this simple should have a simple solution.
views_natural_sort is able to do this kind of sorting.  

It might be currently in alpha state but it already has more than 250 installation for the alpha 3 release which means that  most major bugs should have already been ironed out.

Upon enabling you are able to choose title to sort with and you are given 2 extra options for natural sorting (sort natually ascending and sort natually descending)



It also has some handy settings at admin/structure/views/settings/views_natural_sort which you will allow you to chose what other characters you want to ignore (and other settings)

Following are the default settings