Finder Sorts Poorly

This is the way the Finder sorts my files by name:
0001T5
0002CD
0010GS
00021J
0047B6
00047F
This is the way it should sort:
0001T5
00021J
0002CD
00047F
0010GS
0047B6
Is there any hack, in a command line in Terminal, perhaps, to get Finder to sort correctly?
G5 Dual 2GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   2.5GB RAM
G5 Dual 2GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   2.5GB RAM

"Keep Arranged by..." keeps the names "arranged by" the way Apple hackers prefer to arrange them, not the way humans (ASCII) prefer. You don't have to be a programmer to know there are a few different ways to interpret "alphabetical order". Apple disregarded user interface on this one.
Once again, I believe there is a way in Terminal to set a human-interpretable sort for file names.

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