BUG: Underscore sorts to the bottom of a list

The ASCII character code for underscore is 95, whereas for the uppercase letters it's 65 - 90 (so, lower).  I assume Appian does a simple sort along these lines, and I personally wouldn't have any expectation that it do anything different unless otherwise specified.  Especially for a plaintext field like description.

Also to confirm, I'd be curious whether underscore sorts *higher* than lowercase letters, since their ascii codes are higher(?)

Interesting...can you show how you're attempting to conduct your sorting? I've just tried this (see sample code below) and it works as you describe it should:

a!localVariables(
  local!list: {
    a!map(value: "Any Name"),
    a!map(value: "Bny Name"),
    a!map(value: "Cny Name"),
    a!map(value: "_ny Name")
  },
  fn!todatasubset(
    arrayToPage: local!list,
    pagingConfiguration: a!pagingInfo(
      startIndex: 1,
      batchSize: -1,
      sort: a!sortInfo(
        field: "value",
        ascending: true
      )
    )
  )
)

To Reproduce

• Go to the Appian Designer
• Click on Any Application
• Click on Build

That Description - the one right between the Name and Last Modified columns.

I guess this is a Unix thing because Microsoft, Excel, Google Drive, Google Sheets, and a pile of other programs sort the "_" character first along with !, #, $ etc. even thou its between the Upper and Lower case letters on an Ascii chart. 

I can use !_ to get the sort order I'm looking for since the ! is a lower ascii value than both numbers and letters.

Its more an OCD thing as I use the "_" character a lot in order to force a sort order without having to jump through hoops. I was expecting to sort near the top of the sort order like these other programs do.