Re: Sort Order in KDE-PIM

On Monday 22 March 2010 18:50:22 Bob Smits wrote:
> On March 20, 2010 01:52:51 pm Brad Rogers wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:31:38 +0000
> > Anne Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Anne,
> > 
> > > Presumably that's because 222 and 2000 are not being seen as digits,
> > > but as characters.
> > 
> > A common enough 'problem' in a package used, mostly, for alphabetic data.
> > It's easily overcome by ensuring all numeric parts contain the same
> > number of digits, thus;
> > 
> > CUPE 2000 & CUPE 0222
> > 
> > Then they'd sort 'correctly'.  If Bob has no control over how the names
> > are generated, he's OOL, of course.
> 
> Thanks, Anne and Brad. I understand what this is caused by, I just want to
> fix it. I don't have any control over the number of numbers in other
> organizations names, of course.

Well, since it is technically correct, I really doubt if you can 'fix' it.

Anne
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