      *  lastOperationStatus property to 
      *  <code>spark.globalization.LastOperationStatus.LOCALE_UNDEFINED_ERROR</code>.</p>
      *
-     *  @param initialMode Sets the initial collation options for two use cases: sorting and matching.
-     * 
+     *  @param initialMode Sets the initial collation options for two use
+     *  cases: sorting and matching.
+     *
      *  @see flash.globalization.Collator
      *  @see spark.globalization.LastOperationStatus
      *  @langversion 3.0

    //--------------------------------------------------------------------------

    // Actual instance of the working flash.globalization.Collator instance.
    private var g11nWorkingInstance:flash.globalization.Collator;

    /**
     *  @private
     *  Basic properies of the actual underlying working instance.
     *
     *  This object can be a flash.globalization.Collator instance OR
     *  an object that contains the fallback's propery set.
     */
    mx_internal var properties:Object = null;

    // Cache for the given initialMode through the constructor.
    private var initialMode:String = null;

     *  <ul>
     *      <li>Inheriting the style from a <code>UIComponent</code> by calling
     *          the UIComponent's <code>addStyleClient</code> method with
	 * 			an instance of this object as the parameter.</li>
     *      <li>By using the class in an MXML declaration and inheriting the
     *          <code>locale</code> style from the document that contains the
     *          declaration.
     *  <pre>
     *  &lt;fx:Declarations&gt;
     *         &lt;s:SortingCollator id="collator" /&gt;
     *  &lt;/fx:Declarations&gt;
     *  </pre>
     *  </li>
     *      <li>By using an MXML declaration and specifying the
     *          <code>locale</code> value in the list of assignments.
     *  <pre>
     *  &lt;fx:Declarations&gt;
     *      &lt;s:SortingCollator id="collator_german" locale="de-DE" /&gt;
     *  &lt;/fx:Declarations&gt;
     *  </pre>
     *  </li>
     *      <li>Calling the setStyle method, e.g.
     *              <code>collator.setStyle("locale", "de-DE")</code></li>
