Text Sorter

Put a pasted list in order without removing repeated entries or blank rows. Choose language-aware alphabetical comparison or exact Unicode code-point order, then copy or download the sorted lines.

Original lines

Result

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Sorted lines

The draft and result are processed locally; this tool does not upload or save them. Ordinary site requests still occur.

Organize a line-by-line list

Paste one entry per line into Original lines. Use example fills an English list containing pear, apple, a second pear and a blank row, selects English alphabetical order and waits for Sort. Nothing is sorted while you type.
Choose Ascending or Descending. For Alphabetical, select the language of your list, decide whether to ignore letter case and optionally enable Numbers within text. Unicode code-point order does not use those language options. Select Sort when the draft is ready.
Read the conserved line count and the readonly result. Copy result uses the complete current text; if clipboard access fails, select it for manual copying. Download TXT saves sorted-lines.txt as UTF-8. Editing the draft or an option retires the old result; Clear restores defaults.

Know what controls the order

Alphabetical comparison uses the chosen language in your browser's collator. Ignore letter case affects comparison only: it does not lowercase your text, and accents remain significant. The result shows the effective language when a regional request resolves more broadly, such as Brazilian Portuguese using Portuguese data.

Numbers within text compares decimal-digit runs, so file2 can come before file10. It is not a signed, decimal, scientific-notation or date sorter. Each consecutive decimal-digit run is limited to 254 digits, including zeros. Turning this option off removes that extra input restriction.

Unicode code-point order compares the numeric scalar values of characters, not an alphabet or encoded bytes. A shorter exact prefix comes first in ascending order. This mode is independent of language, case options and browser collation data, but its result can look unfamiliar for names or accented words.

Ties keep their original order in both directions, even when different spellings compare equally. Every occurrence survives. Spaces, tabs, accents, zero-width characters and blank rows are not trimmed, normalized or deduplicated. Only CR and LF line endings are converted to LF, with one LF after every output record.

Examples of retained content and stable ties

The English example pear, apple, pear and a blank row has four input records. Its ascending result begins with the blank row, followed by apple and both pear records. Four lines remain; this tool does not perform duplicate removal.

With Unicode code-point order, a, a blank row and b sort descending to b, a and the blank row. The file ends with two LFs: one ends a and the other preserves the blank record. Omitting that final terminator would lose information.

A precomposed é and an e followed by a combining acute accent are distinct source strings that collate equally. Alphabetical sorting keeps their source order, including when Descending is selected, and does not rewrite either spelling. Code-point order can distinguish them.

Bounds and compatibility

Raw text and its LF-terminated canonical form must each fit 100000 UTF-16 units, with at most 10000 records before sorting. A 100000-unit line without a final LF would need 100001 canonical units and is rejected. These units are not visible-character or UTF-8 byte counts; no draft is shortened to fit.

Malformed UTF-16 is rejected instead of silently replaced during UTF-8 encoding. An actual replacement character and valid supplementary characters remain valid content. An empty draft has zero records; blank-only drafts remain meaningful and exportable when nonempty.

Alphabetical order depends on the browser's language data and can differ across versions or engines. Unsupported language or comparison options produce an error rather than an undisclosed fallback. There is no file or URL input, selected-column or CSV parser, trim, dedupe, shuffle, numeric-value sorter or saved history in this version.

Local list processing

This tool adds no text upload, account, saved history or text-bearing share URL. Download contains the current logical result as UTF-8 with LF endings and no added BOM; an existing U+FEFF stays content. Existing site services are separate, and local operation is not a certification of those services or a secure-erasure guarantee.

Questions about text sorting

No. Sorting reorders all records and keeps their count. Repeated entries and blank rows survive; use a separate duplicate-removal tool when removal is what you intend.

The visible comparison-language selector, initially set from this page's language. It is separate from the text itself and can be changed for a foreign-language list. The tool reports a broader same-language match when your browser resolves one; it does not silently substitute a different language.

It orders digit runs within text, not complete mathematical values. A minus sign or decimal point separates runs, so the result need not be numerical order. Runs longer than 254 decimal digits, including leading zeros, are rejected while the option is active.

A language collator can consider distinct strings equivalent, including composed and decomposed accented characters. Such ties keep their original order in both directions. The original strings are retained rather than merged or normalized.

No. This mode compares complete Unicode scalar values. Default JavaScript string comparison uses UTF-16 code units, which can order a supplementary character differently from a character in the basic multilingual plane.

Not necessarily. Language tailoring and collation data can vary. Keep the same environment and choices for repeatable alphabetical comparisons, or choose code-point order when deterministic scalar ordering is the intended job. Neither mode promises that the original line-ending bytes remain unchanged.

Sources

References for ordering and text export.

Reviewed 5 November 2026; this is not professional or safety approval.

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