# Title sorting with Roman Numerals **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/title-sorting-with-roman-numerals/61965 **Category:** Support **Created:** [August 28, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/title-sorting-with-roman-numerals/61965 "2023-08-28T19:54:21Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian) #### Post date: [August 29, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/title-sorting-with-roman-numerals/61965/4 "2023-08-29T13:24:19Z")
> [@LyricsLover](#): > > Maybe @Florian can tell us the sort logic behind/with Roman Numerals? Unfortunately not. I'm using `StrCmpLogicalW` for natural sorting which is intentionally undocumented by Microsoft and might change behavior from release to release. I'm moving this to #Support. I don't see it as a bug, @ohrenkino outlined a workaround, and I also don't plan to change the sorting behavior. Regarding the special treatment of hyphens, I've written some explanation in this topic > [@Sort by Filename Seems to Ignore Case and Strip Hyphens](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sort-by-filename-seems-to-ignore-case-and-strip-hyphens/60541/9): > > This is a speciality of some Windows sorting algorithms, which employ something called word sort technique. In this type of sort, all punctuation marks and other non-alphanumeric characters, except for the hyphen and the apostrophe, come before any alphanumeric character. The hyphen and the apostrophe are treated differently from the other non-alphanumeric characters to ensure that words such as "Boi-Ngo" and "Boingo" stay together in a sorted list. You can see this live in action by creating … --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/title-sorting-with-roman-numerals/61965)._