Sorting Unicode chars not quite right

[kaveh1000]

I have a set of 35 non-ascii characters. When I sort them in BBEdit on Mac, I get what seems to be the correct order, namely:

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á
à
â
ä
ã
æ
ć
č
é
è
ê
ě
ë
í
ì
ĭ
î
ï
ń
ó
ò
ô
ö
ø
ř
Ś
š
ú
ù
û
ü
ý
ỳ
ŷ
ž

but in LiveCode, using

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sort tText

the result is

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ý
á
à
â
ä
ã
é
è
ê
ë
í
ì
î
ï
ó
ò
ô
ö
ú
ù
û
ü
æ
ø
ć
č
ě
ĭ
ń
ř
Ś
š
ŷ
ž
ỳ

Any ideas please?

[Klaus]

I get the same as you in BBedit when I use:
...
sort fld 1 international
...
macOS 10.14.6, LC 9.5

[kaveh1000]

Oh I did not know about sort international. It works! Thank you so much Klaus, as ever.

Regards
Kaveh

[FourthWorld]

This came up on the use-livecode discussion list last month. Mark Waddingham noted that the bug is limited to sorting Unicode characters in a variable, but works well in a field. He also offered a workaround for sorting vars:

http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-l ... 56110.html

[Klaus]

Oh I did not know about sort international

Hard to believe, but I ALWAYS read up the complete entry in the dictionary
if a keyword or command does not behave as I (sic!) exspected!

Well, and sometimes also just for fun.

[FourthWorld]

Oh I did not know about sort international

Hard to believe, but I ALWAYS read up the complete entry in the dictionary
if a keyword or command does not behave as I (sic!) exspected!

Well, and sometimes also just for fun.

I used to when the formatting was legible. After moving it from the robust LC format to the web we still have a lot of entries that could use more line breaks.

[kaveh1000]

At least I know it was not a silly error on my part! And yes, I did try the field Richard and noticed it was different, but I forgot about it after trying a few other things!