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nautilus package

Sort order ignores special characters

Bug #131529 reported by DavidGN
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Invalid
Medium
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

File / folder sorting in Nautilus ignores special characters ('_', '!', '~', etc.) and therefore does not obey ASCII sort order (http://www.ddms.com/resources/help/reportsmenu/ASCII_Sort_Order_Chart.htm).

Steps to reproduce: create three files: 'aaa', '_bbb' and '!ccc', view as list

Actual sort order:
aaa
_bbb
!ccc

Expected sort order:
!ccc
_bbb
aaa

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Aug 10 12:08:05 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default2
ProcCwd: /home/bubba
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux bubba-laptop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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DavidGN (davidgn) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Invalid
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bellanano73 (martino-ronchi) wrote :

Some news for this bug?
I can confirm that.

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misGnomer (petrit) wrote :

This is upstream in the (perhaps sometimes overly) steady hands of Nautilus maintainers.

See:

Bug 547350 – Sort order problem in Nautilus
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547350

Bug 458707 – Sort order ignores special characters
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458707

Interestingly Gnome Commander gives me the "expected sort order"...

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

note that those GNOME bugs are closed, you should better take the discussion on the nautilus list or reopen the bug

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
status: Unknown → Invalid
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Tom Oehser (tom-toms) wrote :

3b1.jpg
4a1.jpg
5c1.jpg
22a.jpg

NO WAY TO MAKE IT SORT 2-3-4-5 !!!

HELP?

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Tom Oehser (tom-toms) wrote :

Look,

3aa
4aa
20a

Is just BROKEN.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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Arturo Torres Sánchez (r2d2.art2005) wrote :

Why is this bug invalid?

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

don't reopen bugs closed for years, read the GNOME bug for details, it's also a duplicate as stated in the comments

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → nobody
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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