On Jan 21 16:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 21 10:04, Mark J. Reed wrote:
[Intersting stuff]
>
> Thanks for the info. However...
>
>
> linux$ cat jp.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <locale.h>
> #include <wchar.h>
>
> int
> main (int argc, char **argv)
> {
> setlocale (LC_ALL, "ja_JP.UTF-8");
> /* U+3042 = Hiragana letter A
> U+30a2 = Katakana letter A
> U+ff71 = Halfwidth Katakana letter A */
> printf ("%d\n", wcscoll (L"\x3042", L"\x30a2"));
> printf ("%d\n", wcscoll (L"\xff71", L"\x30a2"));
> return 0;
> }
> linux$ gcc jp.c -o jp
> linux$ ./jp
> -83
> -340
>
> I expected that at least one of the comparisons returns 0.
> Am I doing something wrong?
Uh, I think I understand now. I wasn't actually doing something wrong,
rather my expectations were wrong. The idea of the coll/xfrm functions
is to generate sorting orders. The order as such is locale-dependent,
but different strings shouldn't actually being treated as equal.
Corinna
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