As I painfully try to find a good natural sorting algorithm written in JavaScript, I then stumble upon a bunch of different implementations, interesting blog posts, and answers on Stack Overflow.

Each implementation provides its technical tricks. However, the more I looked into it the more a question became very clear: "Is there actually any language-agnostic specification regarding natural sorting order of strings?"

I mean, if not, then how could one expect to write a piece of code that is actually "correct for everyone" or "agreed on by the community"? I would have expected a specification stating the result of the compromises/decisions made, at least for English, as it is simple (no accents/diacritics)...

Note that I wrote "language-agnostic" as I would expect this specification to then be used to implement solutions in different languages, not only in JavaScript, C#, or Java.

Resources:

• Sorting for Humans: Natural Sort Order
• Alphanum: JavaScript Natural Sorting Algorithm
• www.davekoelle.com/alphanum.html
• How to sort strings in JavaScript
• Natural sort of alphanumerical strings in JavaScript

As I painfully try to find a good natural sorting algorithm written in JavaScript, I then stumble upon a bunch of different implementations, interesting blog posts, and answers on StackOverflow.

Each implementation provides its technical tricks. However, the more I looked into it the more a question became very clear: "Is there actually any language-agnostic specification regarding natural sorting order of strings?"

I mean, if not, then how could one expect to write a piece of code that is actually "correct for everyone" or "agreed on by the community"? I would have expected a specification stating the result of the compromises/decisions made, at least for English, as it is simple (no accents/diacritics)...

Note that I wrote "language-agnostic" as I would expect this specification to then be used to implement solutions in different languages, not only in JavaScript, C#, or Java.

Resources:

• Sorting for Humans: Natural Sort Order
• Alphanum: JavaScript Natural Sorting Algorithm
• www.davekoelle.com/alphanum.html
• How to sort strings in JavaScript
• Natural sort of alphanumerical strings in JavaScript

As I painfully try to find a good natural sorting algorithm written in JavaScript I then stumble upon a bunch of different implementations, & interesting blog posts & answers on Stack Overflow.

Each implementation provides its technical tricks, however the more I looked into it the more a question became very clear: "is there actually any language-agnostic specification regarding natural sorting ORDER of strings???"

I mean, if not, then how could one expect to write a piece of code that is actually "correct for everyone" or "agreed on by the community"? I would have expected a spec stating the result of the compromises/decisions made, at least for English, as it is simple (no accents/diacritics)  ...

Note that I wrote "language-agnostic" as I would expect this spec to then be used to implement solutions in different languages, not only in javascript or C# or Java.

Resources:

• blog.codinghorror.com/sorting-for-humans-natural-sort-order
• my.opera.com/GreyWyvern/blog/show.dml/1671288
• www.davekoelle.com/alphanum.html
• stackoverflow.com/questions/51165/how-do-you-do-string-comparison-in-javascript
• stackoverflow.com/questions/2802341/natural-sort-of-text-and-numbers-javascript

As I painfully try to find a good natural sorting algorithm written in JavaScript, I then stumble upon a bunch of different implementations, interesting blog posts, and answers on Stack Overflow.

Each implementation provides its technical tricks. However, the more I looked into it the more a question became very clear: "Is there actually any language-agnostic specification regarding natural sorting order of strings?"

I mean, if not, then how could one expect to write a piece of code that is actually "correct for everyone" or "agreed on by the community"? I would have expected a specification stating the result of the compromises/decisions made, at least for English, as it is simple (no accents/diacritics)...

Note that I wrote "language-agnostic" as I would expect this specification to then be used to implement solutions in different languages, not only in JavaScript, C#, or Java.

Resources:

• Sorting for Humans: Natural Sort Order
• Alphanum: JavaScript Natural Sorting Algorithm
• www.davekoelle.com/alphanum.html
• How to sort strings in JavaScript
• Natural sort of alphanumerical strings in JavaScript

As I painfully try to find a good natural sorting algorithm written in JavaScript I then stumble upon a bunch of different implementations, & interesting blog posts & answers on Stack Overflow.

Each implementation provides its technical tricks, however the more I looked into it the more a question became very clear: "is there actually any language-agnostic specification regarding natural sorting ORDER of strings???"

I mean, if not, then how could one expect to write a piece of code that is actually "correct for everyone" or "agreed on by the community"? I would have expected a spec stating the result of the compromises/decisions made, at least for English, as it is simple (no accents/diacritics) ...

Note that I wrote "language-agnostic" as I would expect this spec to then be used to implement solutions in different languages, not only in javascript or C# or Java.

Resources:

• blog.codinghorror.com/sorting-for-humans-natural-sort-order
• my.opera.com/GreyWyvern/blog/show.dml/1671288
• www.davekoelle.com/alphanum.html
• stackoverflow.com/questions/51165/how-do-you-do-string-comparison-in-javascript
• stackoverflow.com/questions/2802341/natural-sort-of-text-and-numbers-javascript

As I painfully try to find a good natural sorting algorithm written in JavaScript I then stumble upon a bunch of different implementations, & interesting blog posts & answers on Stack Overflow.

Each implementation provides its technical tricks, however the more I looked into it the more a question became very clear: "is there actually any language-agnostic specification regarding natural sorting ORDER of strings???"

I mean, if not, then how could one expect to write a piece of code that is actually "correct for everyone" or "agreed on by the community"? I would have expected a spec stating the result of the compromises/decisions made, at least for English, as it is simple (no accents/diacritics) ...

Note that I wrote "language-agnostic" as I would expect this spec to then be used to implement solutions in different languages, not only in javascript or C# or Java.

Resources:

• blog.codinghorror.com/sorting-for-humans-natural-sort-order
• my.opera.com/GreyWyvern/blog/show.dml/1671288
• www.davekoelle.com/alphanum.html
• stackoverflow.com/questions/51165/how-do-you-do-string-comparison-in-javascript
• stackoverflow.com/questions/2802341/natural-sort-of-text-and-numbers-javascript