>I wonder how safe it is to assume that 'B' is going to be always right after
>'A' as far as the Palm OS universe goes. /PaulN

I'd sort it that way, so immediately you know it's wrong...   :)

From http://www.fact-index.com/d/di/diacritic.html :
(googling "diacritical sort letters")

Different languages use different rules to put diacritic characters in
alphabetical order. French and German treat letters with diacritical marks the
same as the underlying letter for purposes of ordering and dictionaries, but in
German phone books the umlauts are treated as combinations of the vowel with a
suffixed 'e'. The Scandinavian languages, by contrast, treat the diacritics as
new and separate letters of the alphabet, and sort them after z. Other languages
treat diacritically marked letters as variants of the underlying letter, but
alphabetize them following the unmarked letter. In Spanish � is considered a new
letter different from n and placed between n and o, however, acute accents and
diaeresis are ignored. 

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