[Interest] unexpected result from QString::compare

[Hamish Moffatt]

I'm trying to sort a list of strings where umlauts are involved, and not 
getting the answer I expect from QString::compare(). My sample code is:

         auto a = QStringLiteral("Äbc");
         auto b = QStringLiteral("BCD");
         auto c = a.compare(b);
         qDebug() << a << b << c;

This produces the output:

"Äbc" "BCD" 130

which indicates that Äbc should be sorted after "BCD".

I get the same result when I load the strings through QTranslator so I 
don't believe there's any editor/encoding issue going on.

I seem to get the right result when I let QListWidget sort the items for 
me though.


What am I missing?


thanks,

Hamish