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That's quite interesting. Are there particular sorting rules for those non-letter characters? Why is + before •?
by Geee 14y ago
That's quite interesting. Are there particular sorting rules for those non-letter characters? Why is + before •?
- esrauch 14y agoEach character has a numerical value that is fairly standardized as ASCII or Unicode. Typically + maps to 43, a to 97 (b to 98, c to 99, ...) and • to 149 and will be sorted in that order. That's a bit of a simplification; often times more sophisticated orderings are used, especially with consideration to internationalization.
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- wahnfrieden 14y agoYes but apple doesn't use that. See kolinko's comment.
- sk5t 14y agoFor more information, the appropriate search term is "collation" -- ordering words and terms according to the rules of an alphabet, case sensitivity, accent sensitivity...
- kolinko 14y agoWhen you order by name it's what esrauch said. As for the sorting in the App Store, Apple strips all the non-letter characters, and orders apps which match the search query according to their download numbers. So, if "Camera+" had 100k downloads, and "Camera!" had 10k downloads, "Camera+" will be above "Camera!" in the App Store search. There are some more rules explained in this slideshare: http://slideshare.net/kolinko/app-store-seo-tutorial http://slideshare.net/kolinko/app-store-seo-tutorial