Sorting with dictated cells in Numbers

When I try to sort by text a column of cells the ones entered by dictation always sort ahead of those entered by keyboard. Is there anyway around this?
Using an Ipad mini retina running ios 7.1.

At first guess, I'd suspect the dictation software is inserting a non-visible character at the start of the entry, and that this character sorts before "a".
Unless you can discover a way to delete that character (assuming my suspicion is correct), the only ways around the issue I see are to be consistent in your method of data entry in columns to be use for sorting—dictate all or type all.
Regards,
Barry

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