GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 621245
Sorting 3aa < 4aa < 20a is badly broken; sort based on locale/collate needs to be available; normal "ls" behavior is impossible.
Last modified: 2010-06-10 20:40:26 UTC
Look, 3aa 4aa 20a Is just BROKEN. There was another bug that got confused with the LC_COLLATE LOCALE stuff. This is UNRELATED to that. As far as I can tell, it is "assuming" that you want "base 10" numeric sorting. This is also breaking other software - the recent replacement of gqview by geeqie in Ubuntu is affected, for example.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 355152 ***
Nevermind ... I thought this was 355152 ... which is open still...