Sort:ArbBiLex problem

Omukawa has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks,

I'm working on script in which I have to sort some words according to the international phonetic alphabet and not ASCII. So I tried to use Sort:ArbBiLex, in which one can define the sorting order. The problem is: It doesn't work. The question is: Can you tell me what's wrong in the definition? The code is below:

use Sort::ArbBiLex (
   'puma_sort'=> 
    "&#652; &#581;
     a A
     b B
     c C
     d D
     &#598; &#393;
     e E
     f F
     g G
     h H
     i I
     j J
     k K
     l L
     m M
     n N
     &#331; &#330;
     o O
     p P
     r R
     s S
     t T
     &#648; &#430;
     u U
     v V
     w W
     y Y
     z Z"
);

@foo = puma_sort(@foo);
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PS: The chracters that don't look right are unicode characters. I don't know why they're not displayed right here but normally there OK, so they're not the problem in the code.
Thanks a lot!

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Re: Sort:ArbBiLex problem by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 09, 2008 at 15:57 UTC
The problem is: It doesn't work. That's not very specific. In what way doesn't it work? Does it throw an error? Or does it run, but generate wrong results? The chracters that don't look right are unicode characters. That's a known problem here :(, not your fault.	[reply]
Re^2: Sort:ArbBiLex problem by Omukawa (Acolyte) on Sep 09, 2008 at 16:04 UTC
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. With "it doesn't work" I meant it doesn' sort anything. The script works perfect but the words don't get sorted at all.	[reply]
Re^3: Sort:ArbBiLex problem by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 09, 2008 at 16:12 UTC
So it doesn't even sort ASCII characters correctly? If it does sort ASCII correctly, but not the rest, it could be that your input data is not in the same encoding as the script itself, and thus they don't match your non-ASCII-characters in your script.	[reply]
Re^4: Sort:ArbBiLex problem by Omukawa (Acolyte) on Sep 09, 2008 at 22:07 UTC
Re: Sort:ArbBiLex problem by massa (Hermit) on Sep 09, 2008 at 16:54 UTC
UPDATE: I am crazy. Please ignore me. []s, HTH, Massa (κς,πμ,πλ)	[reply]
Re^2: Sort:ArbBiLex problem by shmem (Chancellor) on Sep 09, 2008 at 22:31 UTC
I had that common suspicion asserting $self and generalizing the result. You may safely ignore me, too.	[reply]