Sorting strangeness

[Dar Scott Consulting]

I love puzzles.

The dictionary says the "text" sort is a codePoint, which I understand as raw. I did a codePoint dump on the original text and got this (decimal):

	67 104 105 110 101 115 101 32 20013 25991 10

	71 101 111 114 103 105 97 110 32 4325 4304 4320 4311 4323 4314 4312 10

	65 114 97 98 105 99 32 1593 1585 1576 1609 10

	71 114 101 101 107 32 917 955 955 951 957 953 954 940 10

	82 117 115 115 105 97 110 32 1088 1091 1089 1089 1082 1080 1081 10

	78 111 114 119 101 103 105 97 110 32 78 111 114 115 107 


You can see the first codePoint is in the ASCII subset and should sort ASCII based on the dictionary description. I even dumped each line separately and got consistent results.

I tried removing all lines except the two interesting ones and then removing the Russian from the Russian line. That sorted as expected. 

I think the dictionary description is wrong. 

My locale is US English. 


Dar Scott
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> On Sep 16, 2019, at 10:10 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Okay, here is a Monday morning puzzler for folks:
> 
> Take the following text:
> 
> Chinese 中文
> Georgian ქართული
> Arabic عربى
> Greek Ελληνικά
> Russian русский
> Norwegian Norsk
> 
> "sort lines of <original text> ascending international" produces exactly what is expected:
> 
> Arabic عربى
> Chinese 中文
> Georgian ქართული
> Greek Ελληνικά
> Norwegian Norsk
> Russian русский
> 
> However, "sort lines of <original text> ascending text" produces:
> 
> Arabic عربى
> Chinese 中文
> Georgian ქართული
> Greek Ελληνικά
> Russian русский
> Norwegian Norsk
> 
> Now, WHY should Russian appear BEFORE Norwegian with R before N in treating it as a straight ASCII sort ("text")???
> 
> Try it yourself in LC9.0.5rc1. Is this a BUG? or should unpredictable results be expected if using a default (as "text" is the default) sort of text in LC9.0.5?
> 
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