Sorting strangeness

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Jerry J

Op 16-9-2019 om 18:16 schreef Bob Sneidar via use-livecode:
> This does not answer the why, but as far as case specific, you can sort lines of <original text> by word 1 of each ascending text
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> Bob S
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>> On Sep 16, 2019, at 09:10 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> Okay, here is a Monday morning puzzler for folks:
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>> Take the following text:
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>> Chinese 中文
>> Georgian ქართული
>> Arabic عربى
>> Greek Ελληνικά
>> Russian русский
>> Norwegian Norsk
>>
>> "sort lines of <original text> ascending international" produces exactly what is expected:
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>> Arabic عربى
>> Chinese 中文
>> Georgian ქართული
>> Greek Ελληνικά
>> Norwegian Norsk
>> Russian русский
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>> However, "sort lines of <original text> ascending text" produces:
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>> Arabic عربى
>> Chinese 中文
>> Georgian ქართული
>> Greek Ελληνικά
>> Russian русский
>> Norwegian Norsk
>>
>> Now, WHY should Russian appear BEFORE Norwegian with R before N in treating it as a straight ASCII sort ("text")???
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>> Try it yourself in LC9.0.5rc1. Is this a BUG? or should unpredictable results be expected if using a default (as "text" is the default) sort of text in LC9.0.5?
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