> But I do find, in the vocabulary and > index, words starting with tz are sorting after quatrillo con coma (it > goes z, tresillo, quatrillo, quatrillo con coma, tz). So even for this > text, a tz ligature is marginal. ^^^^^^^^ irrelevant to the sorting issue Whether this text element is spelled "tz" or "t-ezh" or something else, and whether the characters are ligated or not, is irrelevant to the issue of sorting the "tz" at the end of lists. That is handled by a different mechanism than character encoding, and any such sequences as "quatrillo con coma" or "tz" which need to be handled as units simply get contractions defined for them in the collation element weighting tables.
--Ken