and so on. If a mismatch is found, it means that the sort keys are
unequal; the sort key whose character is less at the point of first
mismatch is the lesser sort key. The individual characters are compared
-according to their numerical values. Since Emacs uses the @sc{ASCII}
+according to their numerical values. Since Emacs uses the @sc{ascii}
character set, the ordering in that set determines alphabetical order.
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