asciibetical order

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

ASCIIbetical order
 /as'kee.be'[email protected] or'dr/, adj.,n.

   Used to indicate that data is sorted in ASCII collated order rather
   than alphabetical order. This lexicon is sorted in something close to
   ASCIIbetical order, but with case ignored and entries beginning with
   non-alphabetic characters moved to the beginning. "At my video store,
   they used their computer to sort the videos into ASCIIbetical order,
   so I couldn't find Crocodile Dundee until I thought to look before
   2001 and 48 Hours!"

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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)