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Re: strcoll for utf-8

Paul Michel writes:
> 
> IMHO, strcoll cannot correctly handle utf-8 encoded
> characters since collation need explicit knowledge of
> characters.

But strcoll *has* explicit knowledge of characters. If you set LC_ALL
to fi_FI.UTF-8 then strcoll will know about the Finnish collation
rules and also know that strings are UTF-8 encoded. This is mandated
by the standards, and glibc 2.2 implements them.

See http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2001-12/msg00042.html
and http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strcoll.html

Bruno
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