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Re: file managers sorting files by name in wrong order

Oops, I should read the whole thread.

Jun 29, 2025 22:02:45 Dianne Skoll via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org>:

On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:44:40 -0400
Dianne Skoll <dianne [ at ] skoll [ dot ] ca> wrote:


I see Eric already addressed that, so ok.

I can reproduce the problem in Thunar... apparently, Thunar sorts
as in "sort -n" which is just completely broken.

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5359

It considers 200410PeterFrohn95thBirthday02withFamily to come before
19460904PeterFrohnwedding01 because the number 200,410 is less than the
number 19,460,904

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