I feel like this should be done on the backend. From my experience it's been sorted, I'm guessing the SELECT DISTINCT will often do this, though it's not guaranteed. What backend do you use?

We should add an .order here:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/blob/master/superset/connectors/sqla/models.py#L396

and get the database to do the work.

Well, in terms of database in use, I just popped open the dev setup. Non-alphabetical values can be spotted by setting up a dev environment using the test data as per the documentation.
A good example would be the response of http://localhost:8088/superset/filter/table/2/country_code/, where "DZA" is popped in there with the A's.

I rolled back the client side array sort and instead added an order_by() as suggested.

This is also a valid solution 👍

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