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Processed locallyAbout Sort Lines
Sorts lines alphabetically or numerically, ascending or descending, with optional de-duplication. Numeric mode compares values rather than strings.
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Sorting is **locale-aware** rather than ASCII: it uses ICU rules (`zh-Hans-CN`), so Chinese orders by pinyin (`李四 / 王五 / 张三`), Latin letters ignore case differences, and digits still compare character by character (`item1 / item10 / item9`).
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With the numeric switch on, rows where **both sides are numbers** compare by value (`9` before `10`); in a mixed list, pairs that cannot be compared fall back to string order — nothing scrambles, but do not expect natural-sort cleverness.
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Cleanup is on by default: lines are trimmed and empty ones dropped (untick to keep them as-is). Deduplication is a separate switch and off by default.
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Paste the lines
Results update live, one item per line — lists, logs and to-dos all work.
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Toggle what you need
Ascending/descending, numeric, deduplicate; clean-up is already on.
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Copy the result
You get the same lines, ordered (fewer if you dropped blanks or duplicates).
Because the default comparison is character by character, where `1` < `9`. The numeric switch only applies to lines that are pure numbers, so `item10` keeps sorting as text. For true natural order, strip the prefix, sort, and put it back.
Unicode locale order (ICU) — the same rules as the browser's `Intl.Collator`: Chinese by pinyin, Japanese by kana, German `ä` next to `a`. Stroke-count or custom orders are not supported.
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