> On the other hand Win2K (Locale English (Australia)) gives:
> A NAME
> A$NAME
> A_NAMe
> AANAME
> A-NAME
> AZNAME

<...>

> Further experiments shows windows windows sorting the '-'
> between M and N. I really dont know what the
> logic is behind this.

I finally worked it out (I can be slow sometimes). '-' is being
treated almost as though it does not exist. That is '-' has less
significance than even a space. eg:

'AA AA'
'AAAA'
'AA-AA'
'AAAA '
'AAAAA'

Which seems to indicate that 'AA-AA' is treated as almost the same as
'AAAA' in a sort.

Fascinating stuff. :-)

I guess those that deal with languages a lot may understand why this
happens, for me (english only and not that good at that), this seems
strange.


Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing