Hi Steve, I think in the old algo the bytes of the suffix were compared at last, with the patch they are compared before the prefix.
Gerd > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:47:42 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] FW: AW: RE: computing power mdx/mdr > > Hi Gerd > > > yes, looks much better. I did not test it, but I think it will > > give a different result for those cases where name contains > > a suffix (0x1e) . I remember these as lead in/lead out sequences > > for japanese characters (double byte) characters in ASCII strings? > > > Japanese almost certainly doesn't work with the global index anyway. > I don't see that there would be a difference however - the > MultiSortKey is effectively just sorting on the concatenation of the > partial and its prefix. > > ..Steve > _______________________________________________ > mkgmap-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
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