Re: Human-readable file sorting

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Alexis <address@hidden> writes:

> But, having read all the other posts in this discussion, i'm still not
> clear whether `logical-string-lessp` would use `string-collate-lessp`
> "under the hood" (or at least follow the value of LC_COLLATE or its
> closest equivalent)? i ask due to things like this:
>
> https://github.com/flexibeast/org-vcard/issues/18#issuecomment-92006062

I didn't know about `string-collate-lessp'.  Looking at the code, it
seems to end up calling wcscoll (gotta love C library function names).
Which sorts according to the LC_COLLATE locale setting...

Hm...  I guess the numerical string sorting function could use that to
sort the textual segments.  Or perhaps there should be one with and one
without?  That is, the built-in sorting arsenal would be `unicode',
`collate', `numerical', and `numerical-and-collate'?

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