Re: Human-readable file sorting

[Alexis]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> The definition of that function will be just
>
> (if some-user-setting 
>     (string-lessp ...) 
>   (logical-string-lessp ...))
>
> > > Hm, interesting...
> > >
> > > (sort '("11" "12" "1 1" "1 2" "1.1" "1.2") 
> > > 'string-collate-lessp) 
> > >   => ("11" "1 1" "1.1" "12" "1 2" "1.2")
> >
> > You will see that 'ls' in a UTF-8 locale does the same.
>
> Huh, I never noticed:
>
> address@hidden:/tmp/zot$ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 
> address@hidden:/tmp/zot$ ls 1* 10  11  1.1  12
>
> But:
>
> address@hidden:/tmp/zot$ ls foo* foo12.txt   foo1.txt  foo2.txt
>
> Sorting is hard!

Indeed. :-)

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


Alexis.