B*llsh*t. Sorting is not charset dependent, is is *LANGUAGE*
dependent. It is not the same thing.
The Swedish word "smörgåsbord" is borrowed into English. Therefore,
you cannot tell from looking at it, or its encoding, whether or not it
is in English or Swedish. However, in Swedish "ö" sorts after "z",
"å" and "ä", but in English it sorts between "n" and "p".
Furthermore, in Swedish, "ü" sorts like "y", between "x" and "z", but
in German it sorts after "z", "ä" and "ö". In Swedish "w" sorts like
"v", between "u" and "x", but in English separetly between "v" and
"x".
Until recently, in Spanish, the *two* letters "ch" sorted like a
separate letter between "c" and "d".
You *can't* do this in any existing multilingual charset, be it Latin,
Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Han, or IPA.
-hpa
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