Comment 4 for bug 71386

this is getting too complicated, let's try a simpler example.

start with this text:
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aaa
aab
ʌʌʌ
aba
ɒbb
ɒcc
ʌbb
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and run it through 'sort'. the result (on my machine) is:
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ʌʌʌ
aaa
aab
aba
ɒbb
ʌbb
ɒcc
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that's nor properly sorted at all! what i want is this:

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aaa
aab
aba
ɒbb
ɒcc
ʌbb
ʌʌʌ
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(i may be wrong wrt the order of 'ʌ' and 'ɒ', but since the former is hex 'CA 8C' and the latter is 'C9 92', i'm guessing it should be this way.)