HyperCard: How To Do ASCII Character Sorting


I want to create a list in HyperCard that contains foreign characters (meaning
characters with accent marks, and so on). I can't seem to get HyperCard to
sort the characters correctly. Doesn't HyperCard use a standard ASCII table to
sort characters?

HyperCard sorts text using the assigned ASCII values for each character.
This means that ascending sorts put text symbols first, followed by
numerals, then alphabetic characters last. A sort command that will work
for you is:

"sort ascending text by expression"

where "expression" is any expression.


Published Date: Feb 18, 2012