RE: sorting order between win98/xp

From: Dominikus Scherkl (Dominikus.Scherkl@glueckkanja.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 13:09:53 EST

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> > > Anyone know why the sort order is different under that two
systems?
> > As I mentioned: a new feature, keeping numbers ordered numerical.

> In my opinion, the user should be allowed to turn this kind of
> sorting off.
Uuh. Maybe... I always found the "distribution" of options in Windows
very, very erratic. But who knows, search and you may find :-)

> It is not deterministic string ordering
?!?
What's non-deterministic in numeric ordering?
Ok, mix of (letter-)strings and numbers maybe not so
straight-forward to sort than simply sorting digits
by their encoding-value (this is the cause it was
not implemented before), but I prefer it always very much.

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Dominikus Scherkl
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