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[nubc]

There may be other alphabetization bugs, but today I noticed this one. That an omitted letter does not precede a letter in similar words (names). For example, the name Christoph/Christophe is spelled at least two ways. The way ROX orders the two, Christophe comes before Christoph, alphabetically. The way I learned it, this is incorrect. In a long list, this error could be significant.

Likewise, if two similar files are differentiated/distinguished by Roman numerals I and II, the file designated II will come before the file designated I.

When alphabetizing, ROX-filer ignores any space and looks to the next letter.

[disciple]

I presume you are not talking about "Christophe" and "Christoph", but "Christophe something" and "Christoph something" (well, I guess the "something" is optional, the real issue is whitespace characters i.e. "Christoph ")
The problem is not with Rox. Try running ls in a terminal and files will be sorted in exactly the same way as in Rox:

[disciple]

To be sensible, things should sort like this:
punctuation characters first.
whitespace characters next.
numbers next.
letters last.

[L18L]

[musher0]

Thanks, guys, for this instructive thread.

[disciple]

So what setting is being used when you don't set LC_COLLATE?

[disciple]

You might want to add more to the example to demonstrate case (in)sensitivity:

[disciple]

This doesn't really make sense, because people say to set LC_COLLATE="C" to make dotfiles sort at the beginning of directories. But setting it to anything else would also do this! (but if a file starts with a space that will come before the dotfile anyway)

[disciple]

Oh, actually I see whitespace is kind of ignored by default:

[L18L]

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html

http://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/Da+steh+ich+nun+ich+armer+Tor++Und+bin+so+klug+als+wie+zuvor+%5BJ+W+v+Goethe+Faust+I%5D.html