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The entire idea that numbers would be treated on a character by character basis rather than as numbers is somewhat intuitive for developers and not for non-technical people.

The answer to all of those questions is no for lexicographic ordering. Lexicographic ordering leads to surprise and confusion as a result.

> It's like a feature request that initially sounds reasonable and useful but once you explore the requirements in detail you realize there are too many edge cases to be able to meet the request in a non-brittle way.

It's been on windows and macOS for coming up on 25 years, and is in practically every modern UI. It’s reasonable.