I'm not sure if this is an intentional result, but there is a situation where the 'Sort lines' : 'Numbers match by value' is not living up to it's billing. I'm working on a Project Gutenberg conversion of a mathematics text, and I'm working on a base Unicode version that will be used to generate the 7-bit ASCII version at a later date.
However in the mean time, I'm trying to use the full range of Unicode characters, including the vulgar fractions <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Forms>. When trying to create a list of the fractions for myself to easily search and replace my raw text, I tried sorting the fractions using the above 'Numbers match by value' and it came back as: ↉ ⅒ ½ ⅓ ¼ ⅕ ⅙ ⅐ ⅛ ⅑ ⅔ ⅖ ¾ ⅗ ⅜ ⅘ ⅚ ⅝ ⅞ The list starts off well with the 0/3 at the top (useful for the baseball statisticians among us). The list's end is good too, with the nearly-an-integer 7/8. However, the keen-eyed among you will note that the value of 1/2 is listed ahead of the relatively smaller 1/3. Having described the situation, and presented the expected value and the error value, I present my annotated expected return value: ↉ 0⁄3 (0) ⅒ 1⁄10 (0.1) ⅑ 1⁄9 (0.111...) ⅛ 1⁄8 (0.125) ⅐ 1⁄7 (0.142...) ⅙ 1⁄6 (0.166...) ⅕ 1⁄5 (0.2) ⅓ 1⁄3 (0.333...) ⅜ 3⁄8 (0.375) ⅖ 2⁄5 (0.4) ½ 1⁄2 (0.5) ⅗ 3⁄5 (0.6) ⅝ 5⁄8 (0.625) ⅔ 2⁄3 (0.666...) ⅘ 4⁄5 (0.8) ⅚ 5⁄6 (0.833...) ⅞ 7⁄8 (0.875) If this is a reasonable bug report, please let me know. If, as my family like to accuse me, this is too pedantic for general consumption, feel free to ignore this. ...Ross... (BBEdit user since, let's say, about 1996.) -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or believe that the application isn't working correctly, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Mastodon: <https://mastodon.social/@bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/8a1cfe81-ea3e-4b95-b6f4-144a0824488dn%40googlegroups.com.
