Inspired by PR #983. Transaction sorting on num broke down if the
user had a non-numeric string or a number larger than an int in
the effective num field (might be split-action if the option is set).
The comparison first tries to use strtoull on the two strings and
compares the results. If they're both nonzero and different then the
numeric order is returned. If they're both nonzero but the same the
unconverted parts of each are passed to g_utf8_collate; if either is 0
then the whole strings are passed to g_utf8_collate. strtoull will
return 0 for a negative number.