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Down and dirty hacks are available of course. For everyday use I have come up with this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use locale;

my @list = ('maceira', 'mac alister', 'mac loughlin', 'san esteban', '
+sangregorio', 'san zoilo');

sub keeping_spaces {
  my $aa = $a;
  my $bb = $b;
  for ($aa) {
    tr/ /A/;
  }
  for ($bb) {
    tr/ /A/;
  }
  return $aa cmp $bb;
}

print "$_\n" for sort keeping_spaces @list;
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Which outputs what we would expect:

mac alister
mac loughlin
maceira
san esteban
san zoilo
sangregorio
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In reply to Re^3: Spanish locale and name sorting by Jorge_de_Burgos
in thread Spanish locale and name sorting by Jorge_de_Burgos

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