Alternate Sort Orders

The Alternate sort orders are similar to their counterparts, but they differ as follows:

• For the case-sensitive option, all uppercase variants of a character are sorted before any equivalent lowercase variants. For example:

  A, À, Á, Ä, a, à, á, ä

  This is in contrast to the standard case-sensitive option in which the uppercase and lowercase pairings are maintained for each distinct character. For example, the characters in the previous example are sorted as follows using the standard dictionary order with case sensitivity:

  A, a, À, à, Á, á, Ä, ä

• Ø and ø sort at the end of the character set.
• Ñ is sorted distinctly from N.