Character order in sorting

[Niels H. Veldhuijzen]

Dear all,

I feel a little bit uncomfortable with the "sorting in character code order" option. Can anyone offer me an example from which I can grasp the difference between the option being on and off?
[By the way: if I hit the HELP button on the menu bar, nothing happens; hitting F1 does. This applies to 5.3.1.]

[ben_josephs]

From the help:

Check the " In character code order " box, if you want characters ordered by their numeric codes, rather than locale specific conventions.

Character code order is the numerical order of the internal values of the characters; locale-specific order is the collating order in the language and region of your locale, that is, the order you might find them in a dictionary.

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Character code order
(Western script: win-latin-1)
|
|    Collating sequence order
|    (UK locale)
|    |
V    V

A    a
B    A
C    á
D    �
E    à
F    À
G    â
H    Â
I    ä
J    Ä
K    ã
L    Ã
M    å
N    Ã…
O    æ
P    Æ
Q    b
R    B
S    c
T    C
U    ç
V    Ç
W    d
X    D
Y    ð
Z    �
a    e
b    E
c    é
d    É
e    è
f    È
g    ê
h    Ê
i    ë
j    Ë
k    f
l    F
m    g
n    G
o    h
p    H
q    i
r    I
s    í
t    �
u    ì
v    Ì
w    î
x    ÃŽ
y    ï
z    �
À    j
�    J
    k
à   K
Ä    l
Ã…    L
Æ    m
Ç    M
È    n
É    N
Ê    ñ
Ë    Ñ
Ì    o
�    O
Î    ó
�    Ó
�    ò
Ñ    Ò
Ò    ô
Ó    Ô
Ô    ö
Õ    Ö
Ö    õ
Ø    Õ
Ù    ø
Ú    Ø
Û    p
Ü    P
�    q
Þ    Q
à    r
á    R
â    s
ã    S
ä    t
Ã¥    T
æ    þ
ç    Þ
è    u
é    U
ê    ú
ë    Ú
ì    ù
í    Ù
î    û
ï    Û
ð    ü
ñ    Ü
ò    v
ó    V
ô    w
õ    W
ö    x
ø    X
ù    y
ú    Y
û    ý
ü    �
ý    z
þ    Z

[Niels H. Veldhuijzen]

Dear Ben,

This is a most illuminating example. Thank you very much!