I am not the one who has not thought it through. There _is_ no difference between decimal 7 and hex 7. They are the same digit. File777 sorts before File999 in _ALL_ radices.
Jill
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Allan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Hexadecimal digits? > > > Jill Ramonsky posted: > > > However, "File99A" (where A is a hex digit) should > > sort (much) after both "File99A" (where A is a letter) and > "File100". > > The only way you can tell "File99(letter)A" apart from > "File99(digit)A" > > is by giving the two As different codepoints. > > And the only way you can tell 7 decimal from 7 hex is by giving 7 to > different code points, that is File777 in hex should sort > after File999 > in decimal. > > The proposal doesn't even think about something so simple. > > Think it through.
