Sorting latin strings in Clojure

Question

I did this experiment in the REPL:

(sort ["maa" "ácw" "ijl" "aez" "jkl"])

I got this:

("aez" "ijl" "jkl" "maa" "ácw")

The right answer is this:

("ácw" "aez" "ijl" "jkl" "maa")

Is there a way to sort Latin strings in Clojure natively? If not why not?

Look I didn't ask how to sort this, I know I can pass the seq through a pipe and substitute the non ANSI chars.

Answer 1

You can use the Collator class, on the REPL:

=> (import java.util.Locale)
java.util.Locale
=> (import java.text.Collator)
java.text.Collator
=> (def collator (Collator/getInstance (Locale. "pt_BR")))
#'user/collator
=> (sort collator ["maa" "ácw" "ijl" "aez" "jkl"])
("ácw" "aez" "ijl" "jkl" "maa")

In this example I'm using the Brazilian Locale. You need to change this locale to the one you want to use. There is a list of supported locales here.