Collating sequence used by Win Explorer?

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Does anyone have a list of keyboard characters (which can be used
to name XP files and folders) in the sort order which XP uses?

I would like to lnow which character collates to before or after
another one.

A-Z, 0-9 are straightforward. But special characters are less
easy. Of course XP reserves some special characters and prevents
their availability (such as double quote or greater than). I do
not know the sequence which the remaining special characters get
ordered.

I guess it's just about possible that XP has non-displayable
special characters which will actually collate in a certain order
amongst themselves. And perhaps they collate even among the
regular displayable characters.

Can you help guys?




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Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:35:11 GMT from JS
Does anyone have a list of keyboard characters (which can be used
to name XP files and folders) in the sort order which XP uses?
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I believe and hope that it depends on which country you've got set
up. For instance, ö is the 28th letter of the alphabet in Swedish
IIRC, and V and W sort equal.

The help file topic change the name of a file or folder "change the
name of a file or folder" lists characters that are illegal in a file
name.
 
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