From kde-core-devel  Mon Aug 17 23:12:24 2009
From: Peter Penz <peter.penz () gmx ! at>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:12:24 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Review Request: Add global option to turn off "natural sorting"
Message-Id: <200908180112.24283.peter.penz () gmx ! at>
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On Tuesday, 18. August 2009 00:52:25 you wrote:
> Am Tuesday 18 August 2009 schrieb Peter Penz:
> > Natural sorting is not "broken" in this case. There is no way for the
> >  compare function to know the semantics of a string: Should F1.jpg be
> >  handled as a hexadezimal value or not?
>
> Does it so far handle common prefixes (#, 0x, 0o)?

No, it does not. A detailed description of the used algorithm is available at 
http://sourcefrog.net/projects/natsort.