On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:01:49 +0100 Roland Mainz wrote: > ... since it's a multibyte locale. But for the GNU stuff there is a 3rd > issue - since a while they add special UTF-8 hacks to speed the > processing for such endings up (sometimes at the expense of being > restricted to the BMP or similar things (e.g. if you have one charatcer > outside the BMP your regex patter may not work anymore)) which means GNU > tools must be tested with singlebyte locales, an UTF-8-based locale and > a non-UTF-8-based locale... fun... ;-(
there's also a *big* hit for gnu sort w.r.t. UTF-8 LC_COLLATE -- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
