"Michel Fortin" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 2011-01-13 14:11:44 -0500, spir <[email protected]> said: > >> In Cocoa, string sorting and case-insensitive comparition is also >> dependent on the user's locale settings, although you can also specify >> your own locale if the user's locale is not what you want. See kde trying >> to invent a, hum, "natural", way of sorting file names...) > > Mac OS sorts file names in a "natural" way since a very long time (since > Mac OS 8 I believe). By natural, I mean that numbers inside the file name > are sorted in numeric order while the rest is sorted character by > character. For instance "My File 2" will go before "My File 10" in file > listings because "2" is less than "10". >
XP's explorer does that too. It's a very nice feature.
