Sort Order of Contacts

Hi, can someone help with this please..
On my Z10, the contacts order seems to make no sense. Here is an example of the order (with correct case present)
alison williams
Alison Berry
Alison Maughan
Alison Newton
Alison Watson
Alison Williams
As you can see the 2 allisons are not next to each other. I've check in Outlook and the names are exactly the same (with the exception of the case). Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
Thanks
John

In programming the developer has a choice whether to ignore capitalisation when comparing/sorting, I can't think of any reason to do it for a name, I can if sorting on Company name but not normal people names.
Perhaps a future update may change this or give the option to ignore capitals in Settings.
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