"Daniel Rail" <drail@...> wrote in message
news:5.1.0.14.2.20020212085230.03c662c8@......

>
> We currently use UNICODE for any contingency of the sort and for future=20
> planning of the deployment of our software.

But unicode only supports a binary collation, so your dictionary-like sort
won't work with it.
:-(

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