Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo @drewfer Careful you don't end up like this guy:

https://news.yahoo.com/lawyer-dies-hidden-gun-goes-182941782.html

(And is it weird that they used the word "tummy" in describing a fatal injury?)

@LouisIngenthron @andykorth Thanks.

I can't imagine how I would have ever found that page, even if I was looking for it.

@LouisIngenthron @andykorth

"Sorting by ASCII order would be terrible anyway because then upper and lower cases of the same letter would end up in totally different sections in the results. Any competent alphabetic search would split and sort between letters, numbers, and punctuation first."

I disagree. In theory, all items in a given directory would be capitalized the same way, so this shouldn't matter, right?

More importantly, everybody else does it by ASCII. For example, Python:

sorted(["_b", "B", "a", "_a", "c", "C", "_"])
['B', 'C', '_', '_a', '_b', 'a', 'c']

For the problem I'm running into, apparently Pixel Crushers' Dialogue System sorts the quests by ASCII, not the Unity/C# way. When I wanted certain quests to show up first, I put underscores at the beginnings of those quests behind-the-scenes names. I had assumed incorrectly (based on the aforementioned behavior) that the underscore came before letters. Now I have to repeat that extensive surgery.

"I have not heard of using the underscore that way."

I believe Bond uses it in his (excellent) book. Also, for example:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/editor-project-window-tab-sorting.67916/#post-434218

Finally, I can't find where this surprising sorting behavior is documented, either for Unity or C#.

@angusm Soon you'll only be able to rent libs and the corporation will brick them if you miss even one monthly payment.

@Cax6ton Alt text: otamatone cover of Evanescence's Bring Me To Life

@SFFMagazineCovers Maybe that outfit used to fit before the little guy went to a heavy-gravity planet?

@jcutting @WEATHERISHAPPENING Also Tusky.

There is also a bot that will remind you of this:

@PleaseCaption

@tayfonay Haven't seen that one yet, but I did enjoy the sequel Army of Thieves.