In <0137612305587011.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on 10/29/2013 at 05:25 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>It could be worse than that. How would you compare two strings, >otherwise identical, where the embedded word is, respectively, My mail reader can't handle UTF-8, so I'll decode by hand. If I didn't do it wrong those are: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER PE CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EF CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A and HEBREW LETTER PE HEBREW LETTER SAMEKH HEBREW LETTER QOF I would expect them to compare unequal regardless of the locale, with the characters from page 4 preceeding the characters from page 5. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN