> in German dictionaries, "öf" would come before "of". I am only aware of “of” before “öf”, e.g. in Grimmʼs dictionary, the greatest dictionary of German itsel

> in German dictionaries, "öf" would come before "of". I am only aware of “of” before “öf”, e.g. in Grimmʼs dictionary, the greatest dictionary of German itself, “offen” ‘open (adj.), openly’ comes before “öffen”, a variant of “öffnen” ‘to open’. When I have to sort strings in German, I make a sortstring by throwing out diacritics (via Unicode Normal Form “K”anonical Decomposition) and changing “ß” to “s”. Then I order by a tuple of this sortstring and the original string.