[arch-general] incorrect sort order in thunar

Heiko Baums lists at baums-on-web.de
Tue Jul 31 19:26:00 EDT 2012


Am Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:13:24 -0400
schrieb Ray Kohler <ataraxia937 at gmail.com>:

> You might check if "ls" sorts in this same odd fashion. It might be a
> locale setting - if LC_COLLATE is set to your actual locale, it text
> will be sorted as if were natural language (i.e., prose), rather than
> sorting in the usual "technical" manner.

Thunar doesn't use LC_COLLATE, it has its own sorting algorithms, which
had some bugs with Latin characters in the past. So this is an upstream
issue which should be reported to the Thunar devs.

Heiko


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