Word sorter
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Sorts words or lines alphabetically, and removes duplicates on request. Numeric sorting is separate, because sorting numbers as text puts 100 before 9.
How to use the word sorter
The alphabetical sort uses locale-aware comparison, which handles accented letters the way a dictionary does rather than by codepoint — so "é" sorts next to "e" instead of after "z". It also treats embedded numbers naturally, so "item2" comes before "item10", which a plain string sort gets backwards. For a column of pure numbers, the numeric option is the right one: text sorting compares character by character, which is why "100" sorts before "9" and why so many spreadsheets look wrong after a sort.
Questions
Because text sorting compares character by character and "1" comes before "9". Use the numeric option for numbers.