Re: Sort Order in KDE-PIM

On Monday 22 March 2010 01:35:45 pm Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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
> 

As Ingo has pointed out, it CAN be fixed by using "natural sorting order" in 
Kaddressbook. I've added it to the wish list. 

And while it may be "technically correct" for lexographic sorting to work this 
way, from a human point of view it's wrong and annoying. 

Bob. 
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