On 28/08/2006 9:20 PM, gnumeric-list 9 osterizer spamgourmet com wrote:
When sorting text in Gnumeric, it appears that whitespace is disregarded during the sort, so that (for example): ADAMS BETTY ADAMS TIMOTHY ADAMSON PAUL sorts as: ADAMS BETTY ADAMSON PAUL ADAMS TIMOTHY with the "O" in ADAMSON preceding the "T" in TIMOTHY. I've looked for a preference to override this behavior, but couldn't find one -- is there a way to force Gnumeric to consider spaces when sorting?
I pasted the second group of 3 lines into Gnumeric 1.6.3 (Windows version) and sorted the column; the results were (as expected) the first group of 3 lines.
Perhaps you have some other character (e.g. 0xA0 (no-break space)) between ADAMS and TIMOTHY.