ASCIIbetical order
<jargon, programming> /as'kee-be'-t*-kl or'dr/ Used to indicate that data
is sorted in ASCII collated order rather than alphabetical order. The main
difference is that, in ASCII, all the upper case letters come before any of the
lower case letters so, e.g., "Z" comes before "a".
[Jargon File]
(1999-04-08)
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