Sorting Order

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Scott Walker <scottw1 at alltel.net>:

> Are there any characters (accessable from the keyboard) that can be
> placed in an alphanumeric type field that when sorted will come out
> after the "Z" character.
[...]

All ASCII characters above "Z" through DEL (0x5B-0x7f), except for the
lower-case letters, will sort above "Z".

In other words:

    [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~ DEL

Typically, "~" (0x7E) is used as the highest character in the standard
ASCII set 0x00-0x7f.

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