Just do it, or offer a setting?

see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3252577/how-to-sort-in-sql-ignoring-articles-the-a-an-etc

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Thu Mar 10 17:01:45 -0800 2011

just want to note that this is going to be more hard-coded english.

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Sun Apr 17 11:56:19 -0700 2011

tried that solution and reverted. trim doesn't treat those like strings but like characters -- no dice.

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Fri May 06 22:18:39 -0700 2011