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From: "wasbit" <wasbitREMOVE@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Windows explorer and creating a filename which gets sorted /after/ the letters ?
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 10:33:35 +0100
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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote in message 
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> Hello all,
>
> I'm in the need for a filename that will be, in "windows explorer", sorted 
> /after/ all the ones starting with letter symbols (for non-important, but 
> still easy-to-reach files).
>
> I thought I could rather easily find that out by just a small VBScript, 
> but that both showed a decorated "z" as the last-to-be-sorted character, 
> as well as an inability to recreate that character using the keyboard - 
> alt 158, the value I "chr( )"-ed to create the filename, came back with a 
> rather different one ... <whut?>
>
> I repeated the filename creation using CreateFilenameA (kernel32) , but 
> ran into the same. :-(
>
> So, next to my above, initial need I could do with an explanation to why I 
> can create filenames that I cannot recreate using the keyboard in "windows 
> explorer", and possibly a method to how to get those characters anyway 
> (preferrably by keyboard).
>
> Remark: The OS this has been found and tested on is XPsp3.   Though I 
> think that the above might well also happen on the OSes (7 & 10) of the 
> newsgroups I crossposted to, and as such I've opted to broaden my chance 
> of finding someone who knows about it.   My apologies if I misjudged.
>

My method, found by trial & error, is to add a hyphen space to the front of 
a file to make them appear at the top of the list.
Others have already promoted zz on the front to make the file appear last.
For other symbols, that I may occasionally need but can't remember, I keep 
in a text file & copy & paste them as needed.
The tick character is the one that I've had the most problems over the 
years. That's why there are several versions in the following list

✓ ✔
✓ = Alt 10003
✔ = Alt 10004
√ = Alt 0252
@ = Alt 64
ô = 0244
Degree ° = Alt 248
Diameter Ø = Alt 2205
New line = Ctrl + m
Divide ÷ - Alt 0247
Bullet • = Alt 7
Dollar $ = Alt 36
Cent = ¢ = Alt 0162
Euro = € = Alt 0128
Yen  = ¥ = Alt 0165
Mu   = µ = Alt 230

-- 
Regards
wasbit