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 09:15:52 +0200

> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 18:10:28 -0600
> From: Kevin Gallagher <[email-masked]>
> 
> I believe the listing in Emacs 24.5 is preferable. It 25.0.90, it is as if the initial period in any file/directory entry is
> being ignored when sorting alphabetically. Also, upper and lower case are also being ignored.

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.

OK to close this bug?