Re: Human-readable file sorting

[Yuri Khan]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Alexis <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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 ....

Sorting lexicographically by codepoint has the issue that it is not
consistent with composition equivalence. E.g. U+00E0 “Latin small
letter a with acute” is equivalent to U+0061 U+0301 (“Latin small
letter a” followed by “Combining acute accent”), but codepoint sorting
will sort them far away.