Sounds like a perfectly reasonable request... I don't know if there are any other Swedish members here, so you may be out of luck there. But you manage to convey your thoughts clearly enough. You're looking for a way to sort text correctly in your native language, right? I believe that if you code the sorting program using wide-character functions, and feed it with text in Unicode format, the sort order will come out correctly. The two-byte Unicode formatting is supposed to accomodate all languages and alphabets, so I assume it is organized in proper alphabetical order for each. I haven't done any internationalized programs, so I don't know how well the tools perform, but I know that the Windows API includes wide character forms of all character functions. You may have to resort to programming using these functions, rather than using MFC or other libraries.