Unicode's proper level of abstraction? [was: Re: VLERange:...]

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Michel Fortin" <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote in message 
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> On 2011-01-13 14:11:44 -0500, spir <denis.spir at gmail.com> 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.