How to sort array of strings disregarding accents?

Question

If I have an array like the following:

exemplo = ["Árvore", "Casa", "Computador", "É", "Poste", "Pássaro", "Índia", "Ar", "Ásia"]

The exemplo.sort() considers the accentuation of the words to order, placing the accented last:

exemplo.sort()
["Ar", "Casa", "Computador", "Poste", "Pássaro", "Árvore", "Ásia", "É", "Índia"]

How to get the array sorted by disregarding accents?

Answer 1

Use localCompare as per the documentation found here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/sort

var items = ["Cátodo", "caule", "casca"];
items.sort(function (a, b) {
    return a.localeCompare(b);
});

The result is equivalent to:

[ "casca", "Cátodo", "caule" ]