It works for me if UPPER is in UPPERCASE:

"UPPER(display_name) asc"

Lucy

On Nov 5, 11:48 am, CMWiii <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, actually I have.  Though I may have easily overlooked something
> they
> appear to be doing the same things as I am trying.  Their sort string
> is
> "collate localized asc" which I have also tried to no avail.
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> On Nov 5, 4:40 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:29 PM, CMWiii <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Using content provider for contacts and can't seem to find a way to
> > > sort display_names without regard to case.  For example the names
> > > "Able, Apple, agnostic" will sort as "agnostic, Able, Apple".  My
> > > desire
> > > is to ignore case and have them sort as "Able, agnostic, Apple" which
> > > is
> > > what is actually done by the default contacts app.
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> > Have you looked at the source to the default contacts app to see how they 
> > do it?
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