@Ray, he said it used to work before upgrading thunar, so I suspect it's not a problem with his locale config. On Jul 31, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:18 PM, <brainworker@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello, folks, once again. >> >> Maybe somebody of you encountered with that problem in thunar. >> ...especially if you use cyrillic letters in file and directory names. >> >> So, I have installed the latest version of thunar (1.4.0), and it >> incorrectly sorts contents of my folders. I can not even understand the >> way thunar sorts content of any folder. >> >> The "sort order" by name in one directory is following (ascending) (from >> top to bottom): >> >> * cyrillic upper letters, >> * hidden (dot) files, >> * digits, >> * lower cyrillic letters, >> * english lower letters, >> * again cyrillic lower letters, >> * english lower and upper letters (together) insensetive to case. >> >> The "sort order" by name in another directory is following (ascending) >> (from top to bottom): >> >> * cyrillic upper letters, >> * digits, >> * cyrillic lower letters, >> * again digits, >> * again cyrillic lower letters, >> * english lower letters, >> * and again cyrillic lower letters. >> >> Before version 1.4.0, everything was OK. >> So what happened to thunar? Why such an "improvement"? > > You might check if "ls" sorts in this same odd fashion. It might be a > locale setting - if LC_COLLATE is set to your actual locale, it text > will be sorted as if were natural language (i.e., prose), rather than > sorting in the usual "technical" manner. This means that some kinds of > characters (number, punctuation, maybe other things?) will just be > ignored when sorting, which makes the order look like nonsense. > > The usual means to handle this is to set LC_COLLATE=C in > /etc/locale.conf and make sure nothing in your environment (.bashrc, > Thunar config) overrides it. Check your environment variables (in a > terminal) and look at the output of "locale".
