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Steve Clark <sclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It is like the space character and the - in -Letter is ignored.

Yes, that is how the en_US collation is defined.  I think the goal
is to make it something like "phone book" ordering.  If you still
have a "white pages" book around, look at how a business name with
a hyphen (or a hyphenated last name) is sorted there.

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Kevin Grittner
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