>> I'm sliding over the details of what you said because they're irrelevant for 
>> my purposes.
> 
> OK, but I'd *really* appreciate it if you'd avoid calling my replies 
> senseless:

I never said your replies are senseless. The sequence was:

>> On 2012.05.05, at 4:51 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
>> If I understand Quincey correctly, that's exactly what he's saying: the 
>> semantics of localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare: might be such that it is not 
>> appropriate for such algorithms.
> 
> On 2012.05.07, at 1:35 PM, Martin Wierschin wrote:
> As Jens mentioned, that doesn't make any sense.

My quick dismissal that it "doesn't any sense" was about Kyle's suggestion that 
perhaps localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare isn't suitable for algorithms which 
require a transitive comparison operation.

Anyways, I certainly didn't mean to offend you- if I did, I apologize.


>>> Maybe give 'localizedStandardCompare:' a try?
>> 
>> Thank you for the idea, but that won't be suitable for me because I need to 
>> be able to specify the locale.
> 
> And you were going to specify the locale for 
> 'localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:' how?

I'm not actually using that method, it's just a nice compact name for the 
mailing list, and has the same errant behavior as -[NSString 
compare:options:range:locale:] and CFStringCompareWithOptionsAndLocale.

~Martin


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