On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > On May 5, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > >> "ß" within a string probably compares equal to "ss" at the corresponding >> position, independently of the language. (This makes sense, I think.) >> Therefore "laßt" > "lasso" always. > > I don’t know about this specific case, but these rules definitely vary by > locale — there are cases where two languages use the same letter but disagree > about how it sorts. (For example, the rules for sorting “LL” in Spanish are > not the same as in English.)
I don't know a whole lot about Cocoa support for locales. Is stringByFoldingWithOptions:locale: similar to strxfrm_l? Because if so I would feel reasonable comfortable doing a binary search on strings ordered after being transformed by this function. But they wouldn't be suitable for display. So you'd have to store the original string somewhere. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
