How to specify alphabetical order of accented characters in Views?

In Finnish the alphabetical order is abc...xyzåäö. In German, the order is [aä]bc...n[oö]p...xyz.

It seems that when Drupal views are开发者_开发技巧 sorted alphabetically, they follow the German order. Is there a way to change it?

The output of the view configuration is an SQL request to the database, so the sorting is done not in the View, Drupal or PHP code, but in the database. You need to make sure you have the collation correctly configured there for the views to return the result sorted the way you need it.