Sorting in the European UTF-8 locales does not work properly.
Workaround: Before you attempt to sort in a FIGGS UTF-8 locale, set the LC_COLLATE variable to the ISO–1 equivalent.
# echo $LC_COLLATE > es_ES.UTF-8 # LC_COLLATE=es_ES.IS08859-1 # export LC_COLLATE |
Then start sorting.