RE: Sorting Upper-Case first. Microsoft bug?

I've been re-reading the W3C Recommendation and although I still think
the definition for the case-order sorting given in it is misleading to say
the least, I have to recognise that  if you keep reading the EXAMPLE given
in it clearly states that  given A,B,a and b the sorting (Upper-case first)
would be A,a,B,b
   And that's probably why all the implementators followed this rule.

According to the W3C Recommendation:

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----------------------->8---------------------->8--------------------------
case-order has the value upper-first or lower-first; this applies when
data-type="text", and specifies that upper-case letters should sort before
lower-case letters or vice-versa respectively. 


 For EXAMPLE, if lang="en",then A a B b are sorted with
case-order="upper-first" 
and a A b B are sorted with case-order="lower-first". The default value is 
language dependent.
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----------------------->8---------------------->8--------------------------

   This is not what one would expect when sorting by case (I'm with David
Carlisle 
on this one) but it seems to me sorting by case (REAL case sorting) wasn't 
a requirement when they created the recommendation. :-(

   Thanks to everyone for your replies. I have now a better understanding
of how the sorting is supposed to work. 

Regards,
Yago

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