Re: incorrect sort order in thunar

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> 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.





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