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The words are sorted in lexicographical order or dictionary order. This means that the words are alphabetically ordered based on their component alphabets.
Lexicographical order is nothing but the dictionary order or preferably the order in which words appear in the dictonary. For example, let's take three strings, "short", "shorthand" and "small". In the dictionary, "short" comes before "shorthand" and "shorthand" comes before "small". This is lexicographical order.
A lexicographic order is an arrangement of characters, words, or numbers in alphabetical order, that is, the letters are sorted from A-Z. This is also known as dictionary order because it is similar to searching for a particular word in an actual dictionary.
How is the lexicographic order defined in Java especially in reference to special characters like !, . and so on?
An examplary order can be found here
But how does Java define it's order? I ask because I'm sorting Strings on Java and on Oracle and come up with different results and can't find the specification for the lexicographic order.
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