Prior to some version of Foswiki, the sort in the TablePlugin stripped extraneous HTML from string data before comparing.

This behaviour has been changed.

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--- Core.pm     (revision 6090)
+++ Core.pm     (working copy)
@@ -1316,12 +1316,12 @@
                 # SMELL: efficient? That's not efficient!
                 @curTable = map { $_->[0] }
                   sort { $b->[1] cmp $a->[1] }
-                  map { [ $_, lc( $_->[$sortCol]->{text} ) ] } @curTable;
+                  map { [ $_, lc( _stripHtml( $_->[$sortCol]->{text} )) ] } @curTable;
             }
             if ( $currentSortDirection == $sortDirection{'ASCENDING'} ) {
                 @curTable = map { $_->[0] }
                   sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] }
-                  map { [ $_, lc( $_->[$sortCol]->{text} ) ] } @curTable;
+                  map { [ $_, lc( _stripHtml( $_->[$sortCol]->{text} )) ] } @curTable;
             }
         }
         else {

has to be restored.

This is already fixed in trunk.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 18 Aug 2010

applied, i wonder why Crawford didn't

-- SvenDowideit - 24 Aug 2010

priorities

-- CrawfordCurrie - 27 Aug 2010