Dictionary Order, Case-insensitive, Uppercase Preference
With this sort order, characters with diacritical marks are treated as different from all other characters (except their corresponding uppercase or lowercase characters). For example:
A = a
Ä = ä
Å = å
a
¹ à
¹ á
¹ â
¹ ä
¹ å
A
¹ Ä
¹ Å
Jose = jose
Jose
¹ José
With this sort order:
- Uppercase characters are sorted before their corresponding lowercase characters.
- Uppercase characters with diacritical marks are sorted before their corresponding lowercase characters.
- Characters with diacritical marks are sorted after characters without diacritical marks.
- Characters with diacritical marks are sorted by the order in which they appear in the character set.
For example:
A, a, à, á, â, Ä, ä, Å, å
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