Lists around Catenda are sorted after the unicode values.
To find out what letters have which unicode values see this Wikipedia article.
For a quick overview of unicode characters see below:
1. Space ( )
Space is often not allowed as a first character but can be used in the models and documents section.
Although space ensures this will 100% always be the first in the list it is not recommended as a space in front of a word can look confusing to users. A space at the beginning of a name can also lead to problems as this is not allowed in Windows.
2. ASCII Punctuation & Symbols
Half-width characters
!"#%&()*+-/
! is the second unicode character and is the best choice if you want to make sure your list item appears first in the list.
3. ASCII Digits
Numbers
0001
Numbers are sorted alphanumerically.
This means that the order can look weird if you have numbers of different length in a list:
1
10
11
12
2
20
21
22
To combat this add a 0 in front of numbers that are not very long.
00001
00002
00003
00004
00011
00111
00365
etc.
This will ensure your numbers end up in the correct order.
4. ASCII Punctuation & Symbols
<>@
5. LETTERS - CAPITAL - HALF WIDTH
CAPITAL LETTERS
6. ASCII Punctuation & Symbols
[\]_
7. letters - lowercase - half width
lowercase letters
8. ASCII Punctuation & Symbols
{|}~¨´
International languages
9. European Latin - Capital then lower (ÅÆØß)(âäåæçèéø)
10. Non-European & historic Latin - Capital then lower (Greek, Russian, Arabic, Thai)
11. CJK Symbols and Punctuation (「」)
12. ひらがな (Hiragana)
13. カタカナ (Katakana - full width)
14. Katakana symbols (・)
15. Bopomofo
16. Hangul Jamo and Compatibility Jamo
17. Kanbun
18. Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
19. Alchemical symbols
20. Kanji (漢字)
21. Symbols (/)
22. 0001-full-width-numbers
23. LETTERS-FULL-WIDTH-CAPITAL
24.letters-full-width-lowercase
25. カタカナ - (Katakana - Half width)
Lists that use this sorting
Project list
Models list (old view)
Models table (models as documents)
Bookmarks page
Topic board order
Topics table
Documents table
Label table
Label group table
Custom field table
Members list
Teams list