option sort order in usage/man pages/documentation

[Allan Jude]

On 2018-08-30 03:50, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on some man page updates, and, thinking about consistency,
> been wondering if there's any policy set on the order of options that
> one should use in usage messages/man pages/other documentation, i.e. is
> it 'ABCabc', 'AaBbCc', or 'aAbBcC' (or anything else really, I hope
> 'unsorted' isn't possible answer here).
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It has definitely been policy to sort them alphabetically, but I don't
know that that much attention has ever been paid to sorting upper and
lower case characters.

ABCabc is right out, but I don't know what the right answer is between
the other two. I would say humans sort lowercase first, but by ASCII the
uppercase is first.

-- 
Allan Jude

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