D. Starner wrote:

If the input is in
multiple (Indic) scripts, and let's assume that the audience
(which may be a single person just asking for an sorted list
of his/her files) can read the Indic scripts used, it may be
helpful to interleave. (But I will not push this.)


Now let's asume that person can't read all the scripts. Then they
get lots of unintelligible garbage in their sort. This, and the upside is
"may be helpful". Which side did you say you're making the case for?



Garbage in, garbage out. If you didn't want unintelligible garbage in the
output, you shouldn't have put it in the input, and no sort procedure is
going to remove it. The user that can't read all the scripts is not an interesting person here, because it doesn't really matter to them if the
garbage is interfiled or at the end.


Yeah it does. If I can only read some of the text, then when I'm interested in looking it up I want that script all together, not with gibberish in-between. I'd much rather have the scribbles I can't read off to the side where they won't bother me.

~mark



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