Well, no. It sorts according to the lexiographical order of Unicode. Earlier points before later points. How useful this is depends on the language, of course.

Well, no. It sorts according to the lexiographical order of Unicode. Earlier points before later points. How useful this is depends on the language, of course. I did say that as well. But Unicode was put together from legacy character encodings, and did what it could to preserve the order of those, so it's far from useless.