On 25 Mar 2025, at 18:00, Ross Olson wrote: > I'm not sure if this is an intentional result, but there is a situation > where the 'Sort lines' : 'Numbers match by value' is not living up to it's > billing. I'm working on a Project Gutenberg conversion of a mathematics > text, and I'm working on a base Unicode version that will be used to > generate the 7-bit ASCII version at a later date. > > However in the mean time, I'm trying to use the full range of Unicode > characters, including the vulgar fractions > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Forms> . When trying to create a list > of the fractions for myself to easily search and replace my raw text, I > tried sorting the fractions using the above 'Numbers match by value' and it > came back as: > [...]
"Sort numbers by value" assumes that the input is actually numeric, which, pedantry aside, Unicode vulgar fraction glyphs are not. :-) R. -- Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc. <[email protected]> <https://www.barebones.com/> Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or believe that the application isn't working correctly, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Mastodon: <https://mastodon.social/@bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/C65C65B6-3E46-4B37-A63C-B8B6077A303A%40barebones.com.
