Sort with accent questions

[JA - James Blacquiere]

I'm having a problem using sort with accented characters. The order SORT uses is A-Z, a-z, then accented characters in alphabetic order. What I would like is to have all the accented characters equal to their unaccented pair (ie: Á is the same as A).

Environment:
- Running on VMS ALPHA running ODS-2.
- GNV sort version: sort (GNU Textutils) 2.1 Rev 1.4 (1-JUN-2001)

Failed Tests:
- Tried setting LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, and LC_ALL to "C", with no effect.
- Tried to set the LC_ALL symbol to "en_US", with no effect. Below is a list of the available locales on my system.
 $ xd SYS$I18N_LOCALE
 
 Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYS$I18N.LOCALES.SYSTEM]
 
 EN_US_ISO8859-1.LOCALE;1
                              22/69      18-JUL-2002 20:11:36.38  [SYSTEM]
 UTF8-20.LOCALE;1           2062/2070    18-JUL-2002 20:12:47.12  [SYSTEM]

Any ideas?