Sorting atoms in a case-insensitive manner?

From: seguso (look_at_in.signature)
Date: 11/29/03 

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:31:44 GMT

Is there any easy way to sort a list of atoms in a case-insensitive manner?

 predsort(compare, List, SortedList).

sorts it like that:

Aaaa
BBbbb
aaaa
bbbb

whereas I need

Aaaa
aaaa
BBbbb
bbbb

Thanks for your kind help. 

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