Bug 578007 - Tasks View - Description Sorting - Space character not assigned lowest ranking
Summary: Tasks View - Description Sorting - Space character not assigned lowest ranking
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Version: 4.22   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 10
: P3 minor (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2021-12-31 10:17 EST by Harry Mantheakis CLA
Modified: 2021-12-31 11:21 EST (History)
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Description Harry Mantheakis CLA 2021-12-31 10:17:27 EST 
In Eclipse 2019 and in all my other current text editors (NotePad++, TextPad, MS Word, etc.) the following set of task-descriptions are consistently listed in ascending lexicographical order as follows:


TODO -
TODO - XXX
TODO --
TODO -- XXX
TODO ---
TODO --- XXX


With Eclipse 2021 the same set of task-descriptions are now listed as follows:


TODO -
TODO --
TODO ---
TODO - XXX
TODO -- XXX
TODO --- XXX


It seems that the SPACE character is no longer assigned the LOWEST ranking order.

ASCII sort-order charts indicate that the SPACE character should be assigned the LOWEST ranking position - i.e. it is ranked BEFORE all other characters when listed in ASCENDING order.

A seemingly trivial change - but hugely disruptive for me and my old habits :)

Is it a bug? Can it be changed?