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Bug 94863 - article sorting doesn't work right
article sorting doesn't work right
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Pan
Classification: Other
Component: general
0.13.0.91
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 0.13.3
Assigned To: Charles Kerr
Pan QA Team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-10-04 15:19 UTC by Chris Petersen
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Chris Petersen 2002-10-04 15:19:20 UTC 
This has been going on since at least .9.1 when I started using pan.  When
I bring up a list of articles, sorted by subject, they list as:

1 something
[1] some other thing part 1
10 some third thing
2 something else
[2] some other thing part 2
23 more junk

This may be pan trying to be more gracious to people in binary newsgroups,
but these ARE in binary newsgroups, and it drives me NUTS.  If anything,
make it an option, but PLEASE give us normal case-sensitive ascii-code
sorting...
Comment 1 Charles Kerr 2002-11-29 04:17:14 UTC 
Of course, straight ascii sorting would just give you this...

1 something
10 some third thing
2 something else
23 more junk
[1] some other thing part 1
[2] some other thing part 2

perhaps Pan should change its sort criteria for fields
whose subject's first non-useless character is a digit?
Comment 2 Charles Kerr 2002-12-02 16:42:49 UTC 
<from Chris Petersen>

The thing is, it's ignoring those so-called "useless" characters that is
messing up the sorting. messages starting wht ( [ { _ etc shouldn't sort
together with messages that don't, nor with messages starting with a 
       
different "useless" character.

I can understand maybe ignoring leading whitespace, or maybe making an
effort to scan for the filename in the subject, but most posting     
            
software is pretty good about making very normalized subjects and it
would really be nice to have a way to disable the "smart" sorting
routine.