doc: Clarify collation requirements for base32hex sortability.

While fixing the base32hex UUID sortability test in commit
89210037a0a, it turned out that the expected lexicographical order is
only maintained under the C collation (or an equivalent byte-wise
collation). Natural language collations may employ different rules,
breaking the sortability.

This commit updates the documentation to explicitly state that
base32hex is "byte-wise sortable", ensuring users do not fall into the
trap of using natural language collations when querying their encoded
data.

Co-Authored-by: Andrey Borodin <[email protected]>
Discussion: 
https://postgr.es/m/cad21aoawx1d6basguqxm0mzpxpwb07kgaoaaahjnhhenbdy...@mail.gmail.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e752a2ccc98f324e7013cc4eabc1998d5a1020d0

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/func/func-binarystring.sgml | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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