However, for Windows 10 File Explorer characters in the Basic Latin block (aka ASCII characters), this is not strictly true. Being interested in what the sort order is ...
The first visible character is '!' according to ASCII table.And the last one is '~' So "! file.doc" or "~file.doc' will be the top one depending your ...
When sorting files I've found that inserting a hyphen at the start of the
Post Windows 10 File Explorer file collation (sort) order. W10 allows file names to contain most of the symbols that are defined in the Unicode ...
Would that poster really expect file names containing symbols to be sorted ...
file names sorted literally (as in Windows 2000 and earlier) rather than in numerical order.
File000- 002 - interpreted character by character as "F I L E 000 002".
Regardless of the order of the punctuation characters, your results do confirm that the sort order on Windows does not treat the extension ...
I didn't mean to suggest that was a complete description of how Windows Explorer sorts file names. I didn't
Deepin File Manager use a useful sort order like in Windows and not the standard sort order ... Only on Linux most file managers just use the sort order you get in the terminal ...