> 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. "ls" sorts right, like it should. > 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". This is not because of locale. I typed LC_COLLATE=C in /etc/locale.conf and nothing changed. Thunar ignores LC_COLLATE.
