Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> writes:
> I verified this, and it's not GB specific as one might suggest... Same
> with en_US, de_DE, fr_FR, af_ZA.
Yeah, most of the locales use dictionary ordering rules.
> Does this behaviour really make sense to anybody?
You'd have to argue about it with the people who work on locales.
AFAIK it is a standard of some kind.
regards, tom lane