Explorer sort order is not alphabetical

[dandohotaru]

Issue Type: Bug

As far as I can tell, there are some issues with the sort order in the Explorer panel, at least when folders do have a "." (dot) in their names.

As is (notice that Core.Domain[.*] folders are not in sequence)

As expected:

In terms of settings
Settings > Features > Explorer > Sort Order: Default
the sort order is set to Default, so I would expect that files and folders to sort alphatically

VS Code version: Code 1.48.2 (a047975, 2020-08-25T10:13:11.295Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.14393

Extensions (1)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
markdown-all-in-one	yzh	3.3.0

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Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• Sort order is not being honored in file view (#98212)
• Folders in the Explorer with . are not sorted in alphabetical order (#99955)
• Explorer / Opened Editors Sorting (#27286)
• editor.action.sortLinesAscending has confusing sort order for symbols (#48123)
• Sort order in file explorer is strange (#51434)

[m9p909]

It is a weird result, but I dont think it's a bug. Based on this explanation it seems that vscode ignores file extensions when sorting unless the names are the same. So what vs code is sorting by is

• Core
• Core
• Core.Domain
• Core.Queries
• Shared
• Shared

Your file manager is sorting by the entire length of the name including the extension, which gives a different result

Edit: Maybe this could be an option that is added to Sort Order

[dandohotaru]

that would have been probably correct if the sorted targets were files,
but as a matter of fact those are folders,
and should not be treated as having an extension :)

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