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> And they choose the interpretation that (per their reasoning, and possibly some actual data) seems most likely to correspond to what the user wants. Yes, tha
by sebtron 1y ago
> And they choose the interpretation that (per their reasoning, and possibly some actual data) seems most likely to correspond to what the user wants.
Yes, that make sense, but the problem is that this interpretation changed in the last 10 (15? 20?) years. It used to be that "by name" meant "by name, il alphabetical / lexicographical order" in pretty much every file manager.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- KuSpa 1y agoReminds me of https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/
- johanyc 1y agonice. first time seeing this
- pseudalopex 1y agoMicrosoft and Apple changed to natural order in 2001.
- janc_ 1y agoIt never was "alphabetical" but rather an order determined by the numeric index into the used encoding table.