I think your problem might be that in the tr/.../.../ operator inside your sort block, you forgot to put a backslash-escape in front of the hyphen characters.

When used within the left or right side of the tr/// operator, hyphen is "magic": it interpolates to the set of characters between the preceding and following character, so ,-; (in the left-hand character sequence) becomes ,-.\/0123456789:;

(and in the right-hand sequence, ,-. "becomes" ,-. because ASCII arranges those three characters as adjacent in exactly that order, so putting the backslash escape in front of that hyphen just happens to make no difference)

In reply to Re: Changing ASCII collating sequence for sort by graff
in thread Changing ASCII collating sequence for sort by ibm1620

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