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
Bob S
> On Sep 16, 2019, at 09:10 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, here is a Monday morning puzzler for folks:
>
> Take the following text:
>
> 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:
>
> Arabic عربى
> Chinese 中文
> Georgian ქართული
> Greek Ελληνικά
> Norwegian Norsk
> Russian русский
>
> However, "sort lines of <original text> ascending text" produces:
>
> 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")???
>
> 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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