Sort, version order and accents

[Pierre-Jean]

Hello alls,

I'm trying to sort a file containing accents and numbers,
but can't find a way to do this correctly:

- Without -V option, accents are correctly sorted, but not
  numbers.
- With -V option, numbers are correctly sorted, but not
  accents.

Here is an example:

echo "
A 10
A 9
E 10
E 9
e 10
e 9
é 10
é 9
F 10
f 9 " | sort -f

Return:

A 10
A 9
e 10
E 10
é 10
e 9
E 9
é 9
F 10
f 9 

--> Here accents are correctly sorted according to my
locale: they are considered as a non accentuated letter.
But numbers are not sorted in mathematical order.

Using `sort -f -V` return:

A 9
A 10
e 9
E 9
e 10
E 10
f 9 
F 10
é 9
é 10

--> Here, numbers are correctly sorted, but the behavior
concerning accents is different than before -- and doesn't
respect my locale.

Is it a normal behaviour?  If so, how can I use sort to
respect arithmetic numeral order, and my locale order
concerning accents?

For information:

sort (GNU coreutils) 8.17
Linux x32 3.4.5-1-ARCH (Arch linux)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8

Cheers,

Pierre-Jean.