Sorting text with multibyte characters

Hi, Does anyone have any thoughts on how to effectively sort text with multi byte characters? I am working on a project that uses lots of German text, and the letters with umlauts don't sort correctly. I'm using the mb_* functions in a few places (to adapt an ASCII-encoded database to XML output for flash, which is always expected to be in UTF-8), but none of them seems to be made for string comparison. thanks, -mike. --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html