Aha! Thanks!

Yes, it was a SQL sort, but I'll also (just because I want to have that an 
option for other situations - thanks to you both)

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On Sep 15, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Shannon Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:

> The sort is case sensitive. To do a case insensitive sort, order by
> upper(column) or lower(column).
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> On 9/15/2011 5:01 AM, Dale Graham wrote:
>> Does any one on this list know why this is happening (and better yet, how to 
>> fix?) this
>>
>> Note that we're seeing this behavior using J2EE and compiled 
>> Witango/Terascribe class files.
>>
>>
>> We have a list of educational degrees that are maintained in a lookup table.
>>
>> We get the list, and then display the degrees in a popup, sorted 
>> alphabetically (in theory)
>>
>> While the list SEEMS to work largely correctly, it always fails where there 
>> are mixed capitalizations.
>>
>> That is
>>
>> PBPM
>> PNP
>> PT
>> PhD
>>
>> Where, obviously, PhD should have been placed after the PBPM degree, not 
>> after the PT degree
>>
>> and
>>
>> SB
>> SJD
>> SM
>> SW
>> ScB
>> ScD
>> ScM
>>
>> where the three Sc degrees should have been placed after the SD, not the 
>> SW...
>>
>> I do have a fix in mind, but it's complicated, and I'd love to avoid using 
>> it.
>>
>> E.g., create a new column, put the lower case of all the values in that, 
>> sort on that, display the correctly capitalized degrees....
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