Sorting a list of Unicode strings?

[Tommy Nordgren]

On 19 aug 2007, at 18.50, oliver at obeattie.com wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
> Maybe I'm missing something fundamental here, but if I have a list of
> Unicode strings, and I want to sort these alphabetically, then it
> places those that begin with unicode characters at the bottom. Is
> there a way to avoid this, and make it sort them properly?
>
> I'm sure that this is the "proper way" programatically with character
> entities etc. - but when I have a list of countries, and I have Åland
> Islands right at the bottom, it just doesn't look right.
>
> Any help would be really appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Oliver
>
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	That is the correct alfabetic sort order for Åland.
The Swedish letters Å , Ä and Ö sorts last in Alphabetic order.
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