May 15, 2003

ASCIIbetical order

/as´kee·be'·t@·kl or´dr/ adj.,n.

Used to indicate that data is sorted in ASCII collated order rather than alphabetical order. This lexicon is sorted in something close to ASCIIbetical order, but with case ignored and entries beginning with non-alphabetic characters moved to the beginning. At my video store, they used their computer to sort the videos into ASCIIbetical order, so I couldn't find Crocodile Dundee until I thought to look before 2001 and 48 Hours!

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:58 AM

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