Reference stays the default: that is how award lists are published and how a
paper list is read. Description answers the other question an operator actually
has — "have I worked anything in Alicante" — which reference order scatters
across eight thousand rows.
Sorted where the filtered list is built, so the grid and list views inherit it
rather than each growing its own copy that could disagree.
localeCompare rather than a byte comparison, because these lists are Spanish,
French and Italian place names: "Ávila" belongs beside "Avilés", not after
"Zaragoza". References compare numerically for the same reason in reverse —
08019 must not sort between 0801 and 081.
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