Heikki Lehvaslaiho <heikki.lehvasla...@gmail.com> writes:
> (string-collate-lessp "ß" "ssa" "de_DE.utf-8") ; nil > (string-lessp "ß" "ssa") ; nil This shows us that your Emacs installation does not support alphabetic sorting at all, regardless of case, and instead only sorts lexicographically (i.e., regardless of locale). This likely happens due to your platform not implementing wide characters in terms of ISO 10646. It is likely not related to your language environment, because the implementation of ‘string-collate-lessp’ ignores the language environment when a locale string is passed. Kind regards, SR -- Insane cobra split the wood Trader of the lowland breed Call a jittney, drive away In the slipstream we will stay