Bug 105057

Summary:	Incorrect sorting of filenames
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	Darrell Esau <desau>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	aben, jens-bugs.kde.org
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	screenshot showing sort order bug

Description Darrell Esau 2005-05-03 23:09:25 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs
OS:                Linux

Sort order of files is not correct when using case insensitive sorting.

Create a new directory with three files:

Apple.i
AppleBerry.i
AppleOrange.i

When sorted with case-insensitive sort, the order is:

AppleBerry.i
Apple.i
AppleOrange.i

I can see no reason why these would be sorted in this order (either case-sensitive or case-insensitive).  Case-sensitive sort seems to work correctly.

Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2005-05-04 03:31:47 UTC

I can't confirm. It is working fine here.

What is your LANG set to?

Comment 2 Darrell Esau 2005-05-04 03:41:53 UTC

LANG is en_US.UTF-8

-d

Thiago Macieira wrote:

[bugs.kde.org quoted mail]

Comment 3 Jens 2005-05-25 10:07:59 UTC

Created attachment 11191 [details]
screenshot showing sort order bug

Hi,

I have a similar problem. See attached screenshot: The names all start with
"drossel", but are not sorted at all (in a way).

drossel+anker+...  is first, then one with "-":
drossel_anker....  then another with "+"
drossel+anker....  etc.

This seems not to be sorted at all, at least regarding special characters (as
in "+", "_" here).

Thanks for investigating this ;)

Jens

Comment 4 Misha Aizatulin 2005-06-22 00:15:51 UTC

I suppose this is related to Bug 61989.

The solution was that it is caused by behavior of strcoll() in some locales and perhaps is even a feature. I myself have 
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
and also have this problem. 

Mischa

Comment 5 Misha Aizatulin 2005-06-22 01:42:34 UTC

You could try

export LC_COLLATE=C

This way strcoll() behaves better.

Comment 6 Tommi Tervo 2005-10-28 14:41:58 UTC

*** Bug 104689 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Tony A 2005-11-14 21:59:51 UTC

I can confirm this wrong behaviour. One example from my music folder (there are many others) - Konqueror sorts the names as follows:
...
Chic - Good Times.mp3
Chicken Shack - I Rather Go Blind.mp3
Chic - Le Freak.mp3

It looks like Konq ignores all spaces and special characters and takes only letters and numbers into account when sorting.
Btw: Other file managers, like Nautilus or Rox filer and even ls in a terminal, also show the files in the same wrong order.

Comment 8 Philip Rodrigues 2006-09-02 18:09:57 UTC

Can those who have reproduced this problem please see if 'ls' shows the same sort order, and whether LC_COLLATE=C helps (as described in comment #5). It sounds like this isn't a KDE bug

Comment 9 Philip Rodrigues 2006-11-19 17:40:23 UTC

Has anyone tried the suggestion in comment 8?

Comment 10 Philip Rodrigues 2006-12-11 23:40:41 UTC

Feedback timeout, but please reopen this report if you have the answers to the questions in comment 8