Re: sort-lines including non ASCII

[Uwe Brauer]

   > Because you are thinking Spanish, I presume.  Emacs by default is not
   > sensitive to the current locale or language, when it compares strings,
   > and instead does that in binary order of the characters' Unicode
   > codepoints.  The advantage is that the order comes out the same in any
   > locale.

Hm I just made an experiment with Hebrew, with and without niqqud and
indeed 

בית
אבא
אוויר

Is sorted correctly and also



אוויר
בית
אַבָא

So the niqqud does not influence the sorting but the accent in spanish
does. Most likely Unicode is the culprit here, but it is contra
intuitive.