feat: Tables in IESG dashboard are not sorted

ietf/doc/views_search.py

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 from ietf.utils.log import log
 from ietf.doc.utils_search import prepare_document_table, doc_type, doc_state, doc_type_name, AD_WORKLOAD
 from ietf.ietfauth.utils import has_role
-
+from ietf.utils.unicodenormalize import normalize_for_sorting
 
 class SearchForm(forms.Form):
     name = forms.CharField(required=False)
@@ -480,6 +480,7 @@ def _state_to_doc_type(state):
     ).distinct():
         if p in get_active_ads():
             ads.append(p)
+    ads.sort(key=lambda p: normalize_for_sorting(p.plain_name()))
 
     bucket_template = {
         dt: {state: [[] for _ in range(days)] for state in STATE_SLUGS[dt].values()}

ietf/utils/unicodenormalize.py

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Copyright The IETF Trust 2025, All Rights Reserved
+import unicodedata
+
+def normalize_for_sorting(text):
+    """Normalize text for proper accent-aware sorting."""
+    # Normalize the text to NFD (decomposed form)
+    decomposed = unicodedata.normalize('NFD', text)
+    # Filter out combining diacritical marks
+    return ''.join(char for char in decomposed if not unicodedata.combining(char))