The way most native English speakers (and writers) that I know, including myself, would sort such a set is to ignore the set (regexp) \W . The 'C' (blind bit s

The way most native English speakers (and writers) that I know, including myself, would sort such a set is to ignore the set (regexp) \W . The 'C' (blind bit sorting) Locale is more sensitive and a suitable default for simple machine focused environments. E.G. of sorting how English humans tend to: `A string with non-letters ignores the non-letters. Ace