Re: file name collation

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kalle Olavi Niemitalo" <kon@iki.fi>
>To: "Subversion" <dev@subversion.tigris.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 11:11
>Subject: file name collation (was: .svn vs _svn on VS.NET (ASP.NET))

>Sean Cavanaugh <seanc@dimensionalrift.com> writes:

>> Sort order is a bit weird (using WinXP here)
>>
>> !#$%&().;@[]^_`{}~+=0123456789abcdef'-ghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

>Finnish version of Windows XP Professional SP1:

>'- !#$%&(),.;@[]^_`{}~¨´+=£§0¼½¾123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyüzåäö

>> Not too sure where the unicode characters fall into this, but ' and -
>> in the middle of a-z was definitely a surprise.

>Here, it seems to depend on the rest of the file name.
>For example, "foo" < "'foo" < "-foo" < "fool".
>Likewise, "v" < "w" < "va" < "wa".
>That must have been interesting to implement.

windows is also trying to sort numbered files like "foo2"
before "foo10", and tries to ignore 'extra' characters like
dashes - (or number signs?) leading to weird bugs like
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318872
so just don't expect some really predictable
behaviour from windows (explorer) ;-)

:-)
c.a.t.

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Received on Tue Mar 9 12:32:02 2004