> All respect to old unix gurus, but don't names usually start with a capital > letter, do they? The additional value of this option would be very low. Or > at least hide it from the user interface so that it doesn't fool average > users.
The C library provides proper locale based string ordering functions. Those do all the needed work and you don't want to avoid them as the order of [aA][bB] is the least of your problems, in many languages the letter order varies for sorting, and often there are rules about accented name sorting and multiple character letters (eg A B C CH D DD E F FF G NG H ...) Use strcoll() and avoid the pain. The work has been done, once. Alan
