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> And they choose the interpretation that (per their reasoning, and possibly some actual data) seems most likely to correspond to what the user wants.

Yes, that make sense, but the problem is that this interpretation changed in the last 10 (15? 20?) years. It used to be that "by name" meant "by name, il alphabetical / lexicographical order" in pretty much every file manager.





Microsoft and Apple changed to natural order in 2001.

It never was "alphabetical" but rather an order determined by the numeric index into the used encoding table.


nice. first time seeing this



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