>>Fabio,
>>
>>>you are right,
>>>because VFP0 start with a bad order by choice, Aleksey and Sergey want defend it.
>>
>>Hah? Where did I defend it? I explicitly stated that I don't like it. But that's no reason to call it a bug as you contionue to insist.
>>
>><snip>
>
>Sergey, we have different opinions,
>but I do not understand why you want to convince Cetin.

I'm not convinced:) It's a bug IMHO. But I think 2 things are mixed in this thread.
1) A query like this give error:

select distinct city, right(rtrim(city),2) as country from customer order by country

This is a newly introduced bug IMHO.

2) In previous versions only ordering was done depending on base table field country.

This was a bug in previous versions that might not be accepted as a bug (to ANSI SQL it's a bug).

Now VFP9 solved ordering bug introducing an error!
Cetin