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Hi. I cannot find a way of sorting a table containing French or German strings using table.sort( with or without a comparison function).

From the official Lua.org site: " Lua compares strings in alphabetical order, which follows the locale set for Lua". The locale seems to be set to English and I see no way to specify which locale I want.

How can I set the locale for sorting?

Example

local p = {}

function p.sortfr(frame)
	local tablefr = { -- In the correct order
		"aperçu",
		"déception",
		"déçu",
		"épicentre",
		"étonnament",
		"mæstro",
		"mais",
		"maïs",
		"maligne",
		"odomètre",
		"œillère",
		"oléoduc"
	}
	table.sort(tablefr)
	mw.logObject(tablefr)  -- Wrong result
	table.sort(tablefr, function (m,n) return mw.ustring.lower(m) < mw.ustring.lower(n) end )
	return mw.dumpObject(tablefr) -- Also wrong
end

return p

Result

table#1 { "aperçu", "déception", "déçu", "mais", "maligne", "maïs", "mæstro", "odomètre", "oléoduc", "épicentre", "étonnament", "œillère", }