Re: unexpected (to me) sorting order

On 2015-04-08 11:33, Glyn Astill wrote:

> The collation of your "bnl" database is utf8, so the "." punctuation 
> character is seen as a "variable element" and given a lower weighting in
> the sort to the rest of the characters.  That's just how the collate
algorithm works in UTF8.
> Try with LC_COLLATE = 'C' and it should sort how you expect.
> 

Ok.
And as Chris Mair says in his answer, it looks like the '.' is
ignored, and then I see the pattern
Thanks

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Björn