on "ORDER with IRIs" comment and user-selectable collation units

Hoehrmann writes, 'section 10.1
notes "IRIs are ordered by comparing the character strings making up
each IRI" it's however not clear how character strings are compared'
 -- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg-comments/2005Jul/0038

I would have thought it's obvious that we mean lexical order
by unicode code-point. I thought there must be
some anchor in [CHARMOD] for that, but while I was looking, 
I found...


C066  [S]  [I]  Software that allows users to sort or search text SHOULD
allow the user to select alternative rules for collation units and
ordering.

 -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-charmod-20050215/#sec-CollationUnits

There was some discussion in IRC of whether the SPARQL QL spec has
user-selectable collation units, but I didn't understand the conculsion,
if there was one.

So, firstly, question of fact: where's the relevant text in rq23?
Does it specify user-selectable collation units?
 If so, let's have a test. Is there one? Has anybody passed it?

 If not, does it say why not? [CHARMOD] C066 says it should,
 so we owe and explanation as to why not.


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