Subject: bug#23735: 25.0.94; In dired, under Winodws, "." and ".." has swapped places

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 15:44:23 +0300

> From: Anders Lindgren <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 13:43:44 +0200
> 
> In Dired, the entry for "." used to be before "..". However, now, when running under Windows, they have
> swapped places, as is:
> 
> drwxrwxrwx 1 andersl Domain Users 0 02-26 16:28 ..
> drwxrwxrwx 1 andersl Domain Users 4096 03-11 11:52 .

That's because ls-lisp-UCA-like-collation is non-nil by default.  This
is a side effect.

> Clearly, this is not the end of the world, but a bit annoying when you are accustomed to go up in the directory
> tree by pressing RET on the second line.

I suggest to get used to it, because the results with other names that
include punctuation characters are useful.  Or you can turn that off
and get the old behavior.