Rainer.Scherg@rexroth.de wrote:
> 
> Also it would be nice, if someone knows the correct sort handling
> of language specific characters (umlauts, accents, etc).

In french the current diacritics are these one, with 
simple ordering (accented character equivalent to
non-accented one in all situations, case-insensitive) :

aâäà
cç
eéèê
iîï
oôö
uùûü

The only "special" character in french is "oe" (joined)
which has been forgotten in all iso-88xx and is 
included in unicode.

Sincerely.

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