RE: sorting order between win98/xp

[Michael Everson]

At 13:57 +0100 2003-03-12, Dominikus Scherkl wrote:
 > One of my colleague ask me this question. We use LCMapStringW
 > on WinXP and LCMapStringA on Win98 (by using LCMAP_SORTKEY ). And we got
 > different sorting order for the following
 Example of message list ordering  in Win98:
 TESTING #1
 TESTING #10
 TESTING #100
 TESTING #11
 While, the message list ordering in WinXP:
 TESTING #1
 TESTING #10
 TESTING #11
 TESTING #100
Yeah! One of the best features of XP - finaly I don't need to
insert leading zeroes to filenames to get them in the proper order
(even 9a is sorted before 10).
 Anyone know is there a way to make them sort in the same
 order?
Why should anybody want that?

 Anyone know why the sort order is different under that two systems?
As I mentioned: a new feature, keeping numbers ordered numerical.
In my opinion, the user should be allowed to turn this kind of 
sorting off. It is not deterministic string ordering and the user may 
wish to avail of such.
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