31f2488df2fac6a551a657109c4484fb470401ef Fix: null in a column that…

… is detected as a string with a diacritic would throw a JS error when sorting.

https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/79878

83082b39ab4ae5912d1221b9df04ae5f21593997 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:DataTables/DataTablesSrc

8c7e8da4da1435627f8eb1881c0db897db28b55a Docs: Tweak to `column().search()` docs

Sync to source repo @8c7e8da4da1435627f8eb1881c0db897db28b55a

datatables.json

@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@
     ],
     "src-repo": "http://github.com/DataTables/DataTablesSrc",
     "last-tag": "2.1.6",
-    "last-sync": "f181926d2ebcb27e3b8004964235d37891778950"
+    "last-sync": "8c7e8da4da1435627f8eb1881c0db897db28b55a"
 }

js/dataTables.js

@@ -12510,8 +12510,8 @@
 	};
 
 	var __diacriticSort = function (a, b) {
-		a = a.toString().toLowerCase();
-		b = b.toString().toLowerCase();
+		a = a !== null && a !== undefined ? a.toString().toLowerCase() : '';
+		b = b !== null && b !== undefined ? b.toString().toLowerCase() : '';
 
 		// Checked for `navigator.languages` support in `oneOf` so this code can't execute in old
 		// Safari and thus can disable this check

js/dataTables.mjs

@@ -12457,8 +12457,8 @@ DataTable.types = function () {
 };
 
 var __diacriticSort = function (a, b) {
-	a = a.toString().toLowerCase();
-	b = b.toString().toLowerCase();
+	a = a !== null && a !== undefined ? a.toString().toLowerCase() : '';
+	b = b !== null && b !== undefined ? b.toString().toLowerCase() : '';
 
 	// Checked for `navigator.languages` support in `oneOf` so this code can't execute in old
 	// Safari and thus can disable this check