Wrong sorting of files and directories with "-" (minus) in name

[susla]

Wrong sorting of files and directories with "-" (minus) in name
example - files sorted in TC9.50b12 by filename or extension
aaaa.txt
-aaaa.txt
aabb.txt
bbbb.txt
-bbbb.txt
cccc.txt
-cccc.txt
dddd.txt
eeee.txt

"-????.txt" files should be grouped.

[Dalai]

Are you aware of the different sort methods TC provides? You can change the sort method in Configuration > Options > Display > Sort method.

Regards
Dalai

[susla]

Oh, my fault. I did not notice this choice in the menu.
Sorry for the fake bug report.

[susla]

There is still a problem with the correct sorting of letters with accents in my language (Czech) at the same time as the "-" letter, but switching the sorting options can solve it.
I tried all settings.
"Alphabetical, considering accents" - correct sorting of characters with accents, but problem with "-".
"Natural sorting: alphabetical and numbers" anad both "charcode sorting" - correct grouping names with "-", but wrong sorting of characters with accents.
If merged option "Alphabetical, considering accents + Natural sorting: alphabetical and numbers" were to exist, it would solve this problem altogether.

[petermad]

2susla
It seems to be a special problem when prefixing with "-" - if you use other characters like "_", "+" or " " (space) - the sorting is grouped according to the prefix character...

See: https://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/accentsorting.png

Notice that certain accented characters are sorted differently under different locales - that is why ä is sorted after æ and ö is sorted after ø in the screenshot, because ä and ö are considered subtypes of æ and ø in Danish.

[susla]

Yes, it is exactly as you wrote, special problem when prefixing with "-" in languages with accents.

[petermad]

The "Natural sorting: alphabetical and numbers" is the same sorting as in Windows Explorer and if I recall corretcly: TC uses Windows functions for this sort method, so there is probably not much to do about it.

[ghisler(Author)]

It seems to be a misfeature of the "Natural sorting" function StrCmpLogicalW, which sorts numbers by their value instead of sorting them althabetically, e.g. 99 comes before 100. I guess that it sees the "-" as a negative sign, and therefore ignores it.