Hmm, so it seems that all capitalized letters still go first, before ! and other such characters. If anybody knows if there is a preference still for not ignoring non-characters when sorting, please post. I have various examples where this is useful and sorting non-characters first is the default behavior of windows 98/xp etc, and while I'm not saying that is how it should be by default in KDE it would be a nice option (esp for me, since I have dozens of directories organized with that in mind...)