Subject: bug#22561: 25.0.90; dired alphabetic sort of listing handles leading '.' strangely on MS Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 12:31:10 +0200

> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:15:52 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> It's a new feature, meant to emulate more closely what Emacs and 'ls'
> do on GNU/Linux.  From NEWS:
> 
>   *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
>   If you want the old, locale-independent sorting, customize the new
>   option `ls-lisp-use-string-collate' to a nil value.

I've now expanded that entry to better explain the effects of this
change.