Re: Natural sort order for Nautilus?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 18:09 +1000, Andrew Kerr wrote:
> A good algorithm (linear performance, zlib license) and explanation is here:
> 
> http://sourcefrog.net/projects/natsort/

While its a good idea, it doesn't really work for nautilus as is. To
correctly sort in the locale of the user we sort by collation keys, not
the normal name. I'm not sure how easy it would be to implement natural
sorting with collation.

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