Comment on sorting of Roman numerals
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 2 days agoComputers sort by characters in order. In English order, I comes before either X or Y. So the fact that these characters are out of order, while on a computer that orders things numerically->alphabetically, means that every part of this image is out of order, by definition of its medium.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The files are sorted by the numeric year first, up to 1950.
The two files for 1950 are together, as they should be.
But the letters are sorted alphabetically, so XI comes before XV. It doesn’t see that they are numbers, it’s reading them as letters.
If they want it sorted correctly, they should rename the files:
“1950 - 018
1950 - 019”
That would work. Interestingly enough, so would:
“1950 - Eighteen
1950 - Nineteen”