> "UTF-8 and UTF-32 result the same order when sorted lexicographically. UTF-16 does not." This is complete and utter bullshit, to sort a string lexicographical

> "UTF-8 and UTF-32 result the same order when sorted lexicographically. UTF-16 does not." This is complete and utter bullshit, to sort a string lexicographically you need to decode it, if you've decoded the string into UNICODE then they sort the exact same way. One original purpose of Unicode, still mentioned in the published for v6.0, is to assist the 100-odd other encodings, not replace them. Each other encoding only needs a conversion process to and from Unicode, i.e. 200 conversion processes overall, instead of into every other encoding, i.e. 9900 processes overall. For sorting, Unicode is order-invariant. The text should be converted into a relevant country-specific encoding, sorted within that encoding, then converted back to Unicode.