Sorting UTF-8 strings in RoR

Question

I am trying to figure out a \'proper\' way of sorting UTF-8 strings in Ruby on Rails.

In my application, I have a select box that is populated with countries. As my

Answer 1

http://github.com/grosser/sort_alphabetical

This gem should help. It adds sort_alphabetical and sort_alphabetical_by methods to Enumberable.