From https://launchpad.net/bugs/325159: Quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ĸ: > It is used to denote the sound written as [q] in the International Phonetic Alphabet (the voiceless uvular plosive). For collation purposes, it is therefore considered to be a type of 'q', rather than a type of 'k', and should sort near 'q'. At least in fi_FI.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8, ĸ appears next to k when sorted: % for l in j k l p q r ĸ; do echo "$l"; done | sort | xargs j k ĸ l p q r Both Unicode[1] and ISO-14651[2] place ĸ after q and before r. [1]: http://unicode.org/charts/collation/chart_Latin.html [2]: http://www.iso.org/ittf/ISO14651_2006_TABLE1_En.txt The locales seem to base the collation on /usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1_common, which places ĸ after k. Perhaps the file is based on an outdated version of the ISO-14651 table and needs to be updated.
Sorry, bz seems to have broken the wikipedia link. This is a safer one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B8
Meh, it broke the character in the entire text as well. Please look at the wikipedia or launchpad page. It is a small-caps "K".
I moved the entry.