Re: Defacto standard string library

richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Tobin) writes:
In article <ANN7l.14634$Sp5.13522@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bartc <bartc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

strcmp() will only work on UTF-8 if you make use of the result as either 0
or not 0.

No, it will give Unicode ordering.

And if you use strcmp() on mixed UTF-8 and ordinary strings, then
the result might be meaningless (a string containing a single encoded
Unicode Character could match a string of several ordinary chars).

If you use strcmp() between strings in different encodings of course
the result is likely to be meaningless. However UTF-8 has the advantage
that it can be compared against ascii, since ascii is a subset of UTF-8.

How does "\xEF\xBB\xBF\x40" compare against "\x41" using strcmp()?

Phil
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