I'm running a rather simple query to select the content of a table in Vertica 7.1 and I have a question concerning the sorting at the end. You see, the table displays various health services in french... so naturally I happen to have some accented characters. For example, suppose I have the following data in my table and run the query written immediately after:

```
//This is some sample data

Électrocardiogramme
Radiographie
Anesthésie
Équipement divers
Massothérapie
Encéphalogramme

//This is the query I run
select * from myTable order by Description

```

This is what I currently end up with:

```
Anesthésie
Encéphalogramme
Massothérapie
Radiographie
Électrocardiogramme
Équipement divers

```

As you can see, the accented characters throw the sorting off in such a way that the "É" all appear at the end of the list. Now I understand the logic behind it all since in the UTF-8 table "E" and "É" are two different characters and all accented characters technically appear "after" normal letters, thus the result presented above. 

However, in my case, I'd like the result to be presented this way:

```
Anesthésie
Électrocardiogramme
Encéphalogramme
Équipement divers
Massothérapie
Radiographie

```

Basically, I'd like Vertica to treat the accented character as its unaccented counterpart. Is there a way to do that without altering the data contained in the table?