Re: Space-sensitive sorting?

["J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <fsmla xinara org>]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:20:51 -0400, gnumeric-list 9 osterizer spamgourmet com wrote:
> When sorting text in Gnumeric, it appears that whitespace is disregarded
> during the sort,

This depends on your locale settings; see
        http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=3006646&sliceId=SAL_Public

> 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?

Yes, use a locale with LC_COLLATE=C.

HTH,
Ray
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