Re: UTF-8S (was: Re: ISO vs Unicode UTF-8)

[DougEwell2]

In a message dated 2001-06-05 10:25:17 Pacific Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

>  Normally a strcmp function just loops through the string comparing them
>  character by character.  If the loop checks for surrogates and compares
>  UTF-32 code points you will always get the same result for all encoding, 
the
>  standard Unicode code point order.
>  
>  Ultimately this is the "do it right the first time" way of implementing
>  Unicode.

This is what I've been trying to say all along.  Define your own meaning of 
"sorted" and go with that; don't ask the standardizers to put their blessing 
on a weird sort order.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California