> I will add that I'm plenty "smart" enough to understand that "10" comes before "9" in a strictly alphabetical sense Strictly speaking 9, 1 and 0 are not in t

> I will add that I'm plenty "smart" enough to understand that "10" comes before "9" in a strictly alphabetical sense Strictly speaking 9, 1 and 0 are not in the alphabet so can't be sorted alphabetically. And I think most "normal users" wouldn't expect that programmers generalize the alphabet like we do.