Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Fredric Fredricson
> <Fredric(dot)Fredricson(at)bonetmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> I use locale en_US.UTF-8 but why this should affect how leading characters
>> in strings are ignored is beyond me.
>>
>
> P.s. this page may shed some light on the subject:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collation
OK, thanks. It did shed some light on the subject. Only I wonder what
would happen if these sort algorithms where used on things like article
numbers in the industry. That would confuse the hell out of the people
there.
Alas, not my problem. I have a work around that works for my little part
of the universe. At least for now.
You live, you learn.
/Fredric