Yeah, as I thought, it changes the sort on numeric information, but the rest of the sorting process is still non-ascii.

Where I would expect files to sort:

$File1
250File2
45File3
File4
~File5

Explorer sorts them

$File1
~File5
250File2
45File3
File4

and before the "logic fix" it sorted them

$File1
~File5
45File3
250File2
File4


with all special characters sorting ahead of both alpha and numeric characters.

Oh, well, given the general state of the world, this is a pretty trivial problem, I guess.

tanstaafl.