On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 00:46:50 +0200, Markus Bertheau
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Ð ÐÐÐ, 23.08.2004, Ð 23:04, David Wheeler ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> > On Aug 23, 2004, at 1:58 PM, Ian Barwick wrote:
> >
> > > er, the characters in "name" don't seem to match the characters in the
> > > query - 'êëë' vs. 'ëíì' - does that have any bearing?
> >
> > Yes, it means that = is doing the wrong thing!!
>
> The collation rules of your (and my) locale say that these strings are
> the same:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] markus]$ cat > t
> êëë
> ëíì
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] markus]$ uniq t
> êëë
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] markus]$
wild speculation in need of a Korean speaker, but:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp> cat j.txt
ããã
íêì
ìêì
ìëì
êëë
ëíì
ããã
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp> uniq j.txt
ããã
íêì
ããã
All but the first and last lines are random Korean (Hangul)
characters. Evidently our respective locales think all Hangul strings
of the same length are identical, which is very probably not the
case...
Ian Barwick
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