On 21 Sep 2009, at 17:27, Jens Alfke wrote:
(In practice, the HFS+ filesystem does return filenames in alphabetical order, although I think it's just sorted by Unicode codepoint,
It's a little more complicated in practice; case-insensitive HFS+ sorts by means of a case-insensitive comparison that's defined in the spec. Case-sensitive HFS+ sorts by UTF-16 code unit.
However, you can't rely on this behaviour, since as you rightly point out, other filesystems may return filenames in any order. And, of course, case-sensitive HFS+ sorts differently from case-insensitive.
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