On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 06:54:15PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> That's true, in the sense that unconverted strings are not hashable.
> This is what strxfrm was created for, to return the sorting key for a
> string. A quick C program demonstrates that indeed in that locale these
> two strings are equal, whereas in en_AU they are not.
FWIW, here's some links to Microsoft and MySQL dealing with the same
issue, so we're not alone here. Hungarian seems to be a complex
language to sort, but it seems that glibc is right in this case.
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/11/13/491646.aspx
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=12519
Have a nice day,
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> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.