Re: File sort order

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 11:55 +0300, basOS G wrote:
> Hello,
> sometimes ti use the # character or $ as the first in a file to make
> it appear on top of other insignificant files. This is based on the
> fact that # and $ are before the other letters and thus sorted before
> them. This worked on windows explorer. Nautilus on the other hand
> ignores these characters. It would be very handfull if someone could
> disable this kind of sorting. 
> Thank you.

Change the collation rules in the locale setting (LC_COLLATE) to "C".
Should work, but it changes other aspects of sorting too.

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