OT: Re: thunar + mountpoints + sort by name and case

[Joe Klemmer]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 12:00 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> There are plenty of reasons to rant about Microsoft, but I don't really
> see this as one of them.  Sort order is a relatively arbitrary decision
> (outside of any standards, which you could say are pretty arbitrary as
> well), at least for the 4 classes of characters you mentioned.  Why
> should special characters come at the beginning instead of the end? 
> Why do numbers come before letters?  I can't think of a logical reason
> for this; it seems pretty arbitrary.  It only seems logical because
> it's what we're used to seeing.  Unless I'm missing something here.

	Originally it had to do with memory bits and how memory was accessed.
This was back in the day and the power of systems today is such that
performance efficiency is no longer a consideration.  That's why the old
IBM systems used EBCDIC while the rest used ASCII.

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