Sorting strangeness

[Bob Sneidar]

This does not answer the why, but as far as case specific, you can sort lines of <original text> by word 1 of each ascending text

Bob S


> On Sep 16, 2019, at 09:10 , 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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