The Unicode collation sequence shows the order of all the characters in the
specified sort. It is shown in a tree structure, with branches representing
primary, secondary, and tertiary sort levels. The primary, secondary, and tertiary
sort levels are a way of classifying characters. The sort level that is shown
is irrelevant to the sort order. The characters are sorted in the order that
you see from the top to the bottom of the screen. Each entry is called a node.
For example, if you browse the GENERIC_M collation sequence, you will see a
series of monetary symbols, then a series of characters with the base character
of 0 (zero), then a series of characters with the base character
of 1, and so forth. If you browse further, you will see that a
(\u0061) is in a tertiary sort level and a similar character that looks like
an upside-down a (\u0250) is in a primary level sort but comes
later in the sequence. A sort based on the GENERIC_M collation sequence that
includes these two characters will place a (\u0061) first.
NOTE: The Unicode values (UTF-16) in the collation screens appear with an
x instead of a u.
The basic Unicode collation sequence does not show the order of characters with
diacritics For example, the view of GENERIC_M does not show whether å
or á comes first. To see a view of the collation sequence that includes
characters with diacritics, click FullView.
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