Re: Space-sensitive sorting?

[John Machin <sjmachin lexicon net>]

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.