Maybe you expect wrong thing?

Why would you say that? The output of your code on your system shows that our expectations are right -- if you use some 1252 (I think that means Windows) locale instead of UTF-8.

This is the output of your program on my system.

Current locale is (C).
    unsorted             use-locale           no-locale           
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
  0 maceira              mac alister          mac alister         
  1 mac alister          maceira              mac loughlin        
  2 mac loughlin         mac loughlin         maceira             
  3 san esteban          san esteban          san esteban         
  4 sangregorio          sangregorio          san zoilo           
  5 san zoilo            san zoilo            sangregorio         
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
Couldn't switch locale from (es_AR.UTF-8) to (Spanish - Argentina).
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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I am looking for a solution to a problem that arises under Spanish UTF-8 locales, where sorting order treats the space character as non existent.

In reply to Re^2: Spanish locale and name sorting by Jorge_de_Burgos
in thread Spanish locale and name sorting by Jorge_de_Burgos

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