What is the sort order?

[pguyot]

Installed product versions

• Visual Studio: 2022
• This extension: master

Description

Sort order is difficult to understand.
Could it be specified or be coherent with say POSIX sort(1)? At least something humans can understand.
We are trying to enforce the order on the CI and fail to figure out how it works.

Current behavior

It currently puts _ before letters and digits but after dots.
It's not coherent with known collations such as C or en_US.UTF-8

Does it depend on the configuration of the desktop machine?

[SmokyBob]

Sorry for the really late response (I didn't see the notification).

The sort is done using linq over a list of xml nodes (see for example)

I'm not sure how the sort order could be changed; if you find out, feel free to create a PR with the change.

The end goal of this extension is to keep the order consistent so that merges are safer and quicker, if the new order doesn't hinder this goal and helps you in other tasks I'll accept the PR