MacOS and Windows: sorting – Simple to enter Unicode character that would sort after Z in most cases? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/10
TL;DR: There is no simple character that works on both MacOS and Windows.
[Wayback/Archive] sorting – Simple to enter Unicode character that would sort after Z in most cases? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] sorin and [Wayback/Archive] degenerate):
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On Windows, none of these options work because they all sort before
A.A solution I ended up using is an Arabic character:
ٴ This folder comes after
zin windows
According to [Wayback/Archive] What Unicode character is this ?, the above mentioned character is U+0674 : ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA.
Note that on Windows the ٴ character displays at the start of the filename, but on MacOS in Finder it ends up behind the extension (as Arabic script is right-to-left) and is very hard to remove. On the MacOS Terminal it ends up on the left and is easy to modify.
The source mentioned is [Wayback/Archive] Windows Sort files by name. What character will come after Z in the list? (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Ni – The Massassi Temple: Forums)
aha! Arabic works. ٴ is quite a nice character to use since it’s quite small.
Related
- [Wayback/Archive] Characters after “z” in Mac OS X – Apple Community (proposed solution does not work on Windows)
- U+0674 – Search results – Wikipedia
- [Wayback/Archive] Unicode Character ‘ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA’ (U+0674)
Queries
- [Wayback/Archive] macos sort order symbols after letters – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] U+0674 : ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA – Google Search
- U+0674 – Search results – Wikipedia
–jeroen
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