Even on many OS flavors that do suport locales, the user cannot create his own locales as needed. This module is meant to provide an alternative to locale-based sorting. This module makes functions for you that implement bi-level lexicographic sorting according to a sort order you specify. Moreover, the units of sorting for a writing system may not be characters exactly. So this library doesn't assume that the units of comparison are individual characters.
POD is readable with the 'perldoc' utility.
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