Why does .NET sort the characters '+' and '^' in a different order than they appear in ASCII table or the way SQL sorts them.

In ASCII table '+' has value of 42 and '^' has value of 94 but if you run code like this:

var list = new List<string> { "+", "^", "!" };
list.Sort();

The list will contain values in the following order:

{ "!", "^", "+" }

LINQ sort generates the same result. Can someone tell me what kind of sort .NET does?

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