Re: Human-readable file sorting

[Alexis]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> 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'?

Off the top of my head, that sounds like a good option to me (and 
i assume by 'unicode' you mean "sort by Unicode codepoint"?); but 
perhaps there are a number of possible issues with this approach 
that i'm not aware of ....


Alexis.