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brimstedt | 5 months ago

Isnt the author confusing "alphabetical sorting" with "ASCII sorting"?

Afaik there is no universal way to handle numbers in alphabetical lists. Sometimes numbers some before letters, sometimes after, etc.

A digit is not a part of the alphabet, right?

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Wowfunhappy|5 months ago

> Isnt the author confusing "alphabetical sorting" with "ASCII sorting"?

But it's actually not ASCII sorting either! ASCII sorting would mean 'Z' comes before 'a' and I assume even the author doesn't want that!

No matter what, there are going to be hidden tricks!

userbinator|5 months ago

But it's actually not ASCII sorting either! ASCII sorting would mean 'Z' comes before 'a' and I assume even the author doesn't want that!

I don't know about the author, but that's exactly what many others who know about ASCII expect, including me. Digits, then uppercase, then lowercase.