Re: Utf-8 support in C functions on Linux

[Martin Duerst <duerst@xxxxxx>]

Hello Francois,

As your questions are not Web-related at all, may I suggest
that you don't copy www-international@xxxxxx for the moment?
If you have some Web and Internationalization related questions,
please feel free to come back here.

Regards,    Martin.

At 09:48 01/12/13 -0500, Richard, Francois M wrote:
> I have been posting quite regularly questions about utf-8 support/Locale on
> Linux (and Solaris). Before asking one more, I would like to thank people
> who contributed to theses discussions. Your feedback and replies have been
> always very interesting and most of the time very valuable ;)... Thanks for
> taking some of your time to answer.
>
> We were doing some testing with a piece of C code on Linux (Locale sensitive
> thanks to SetLocale() and with a system Locale set first to en_US.utf8 and
> then to sv_SV.utf8)  and it looks like magically strcoll() was sorting the
> utf-8 file read in input(two characters only: ç
and z). So in en_US.utf8, 
> ç
came first, then z. And in sv_SV.uft8, z came first, then ç
>
> Does it mean strcoll() properly handle utf-8 data??? I would be very
> surprised. But how to explain the proper sorting results we got?
>
> Is there somewhere an extensive list indicating which C char functions do
> handle utf-8 properly and which ones do not (and as a result need to be
> replaced with wide C functions to correctly manipulate utf-8 data)? That
> would save us a lot of time since interpreting our test results is not in
> fact that obvious.
>
> Fran輟is

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