Collation can be simply thought of as sort order.
In English (and it's strange cousin, American), collation may be a pretty simple matter consisting of ordering by the ASCII code.
Once you get into those strange European languages with all their accents and other features, collation changes. For example, though the different accented forms of a may exist at disparate code points, they may all need to be sorted as if they were the same letter.
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