Interesting Sort using ORDER BY

I would like to sort by footnote names in our table which should be sorted as below:
2a,2b,2c,3a,3b,3c,8,10,15,18
When I use ORDER BY FOOTNOTE_NAME, Oracle sorts the result like this:
10,15,18,2a,2b,2c,3a,3b,3c,8
which is not what I want.
Any ideas. Will I need to strip characters, convert the remaining part to Int and then sort. Does Oracle let you specify your own sort rules?
Thanks in advance.

Assuming that the footnote names only have letters and numbers, then something like:
SQL> SELECT * FROM t;
COL
2a
2b
3b
3c
8
15
18
3a
2c
10
SQL> SELECT * FROM t
2 ORDER BY TO_CHAR(TRANSLATE(UPPER(col),'1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ',
3                                      '1234567890'),'0000')||
4           TRANSLATE(UPPER(col),'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890',
5                              'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ');
COL
2a
2b
2c
3a
3b
3c
8
10
15
18TTFN
John

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