From: Randall Parker 

Geo,

There are different collation sequences for the same set of characters. They are
using a different collation sequence for raw ASCII than they are for whatever they
translate characters in the GUI interface. My guess is you are seeing the difference
between ASCII (or perhaps CP1250 or some other Latin-1 encoding) and a collation
sequence they have defined for Unicode.

Different collation sequences are needed because there is not even a consensus on how
umlauts and all those Euro characters ought to be sorted.

I do not find your results particularly surprising. RDBMS's have
configurable collation sequences.

Geo. wrote:

> Ok, I thought I understood computers.
>
> You all know what alphanumeric order means right? You sort newsgroup
> posts by title and this one appears at the top because it begins with a
> ! instead of a letter and the ! character comes first in an alpha sort.
> (last in some alpha orders I guess)
>
> Ok so explain the attached alpha order of a directory I just created as
> a test in W2K. This has got to be a microsoftism..
>
> Geo.
>
>

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