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Object are sorted and concatenated by swift in cardinal order.

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Modified values in example in decimal to be more precise,
added a small description on Object are sorted and concatenated
by swift in cardinal order as a small phrase would be sufficient.

Change-Id: I914ded4e5726e50bb93b05759c3bfb76edda53ab
backport: none
Closes-Bug: #1383893
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doc/source/overview_large_objects.rst
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@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ is just a zero-byte (not enforced) file with an extra
``X-Object-Manifest`` header.
All the object segments need to be in the same container, have a common object
name prefix, and their names sort in the order they should be concatenated.
name prefix, and sort in the order in which they should be concatenated.
Object names are sorted lexicographically as UTF-8 byte strings.
They don't have to be in the same container as the manifest file will be, which
is useful to keep container listings clean as explained above with ``swift``.
@ -101,11 +102,11 @@ Here's an example using ``curl`` with tiny 1-byte segments::
# First, upload the segments
curl -X PUT -H 'X-Auth-Token: <token>' \
http://<storage_url>/container/myobject/1 --data-binary '1'
http://<storage_url>/container/myobject/00000001 --data-binary '1'
curl -X PUT -H 'X-Auth-Token: <token>' \
http://<storage_url>/container/myobject/2 --data-binary '2'
http://<storage_url>/container/myobject/00000002 --data-binary '2'
curl -X PUT -H 'X-Auth-Token: <token>' \
http://<storage_url>/container/myobject/3 --data-binary '3'
http://<storage_url>/container/myobject/00000003 --data-binary '3'
# Next, create the manifest file
curl -X PUT -H 'X-Auth-Token: <token>' \