6.5.8.3 Specifying index sort type and locale

To ensure that accented or non-Western characters sort the way you want them to in the index, you might have to specify a different sort type, or a non-English locale:

[HtmlOptions]

; IndexSortType = Numeric (default, code-point order),

;  Lexical (using MS strcoll functions), or

;  Alpha (sort accented letters as though they are unaccented).

IndexSortType=Numeric

; IndexSortLocale = language to use for sorting index.

;  When IndexSortType is Lexical, default is current

;  OS country setting. Uses MS language names.

;IndexSortLocale=English

For example, to make accented letters sort as though unaccented, specify the following:

[HtmlOptions]

IndexSortType=Alpha

Alpha works only with the Windows Western character set and the Unicode character set. Specify Lexical for Central European or Cyrillic locales; Alpha does not handle those.

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