Article View: comp.std.internat
Article #892Re: International Collating Sequence
From: Karl Heuer
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1987 21:15
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1987 21:15
16 lines
1464 bytes
1464 bytes
In article <1483@ist.UUCP> agc@ist.UUCP (Alistair G. Crooks) writes: >Why not strip the string routines from libc into a shared library, >that can be dynamically linked at run time? Or even just strcmp() >and strncmp()? Actually, a shared library normally gives you the choice at startup-time rather than run-time. I don't think it's appropriate to replace strcmp(). Most uses of strcmp() are to test two strings for exact equality; these should be left alone. The ANSI C library includes a new function (it's "strcoll()" in the Oct86 dpANS; but I think it may have changed since then) which will "digest" any string in a locale-specific way. (For example, in German-Telephone-Directory mode it could map "Schr\(o"der" to "schroeder".) This seems like a good approach. Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<1362@haddock.ISC.COM>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!haddock!karlReferences:
<2706@sol.ARPA> <29640@sun.uucp> <363@zuring.cwi.nl> <1483@ist.UUCP>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!haddock!karl From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: International Collating Sequence Message-ID: <1362@haddock.ISC.COM> Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 17:15:58 EDT Article-I.D.: haddock.1362 Posted: Mon Oct 12 17:15:58 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Oct-87 02:12:59 EDT References: <2706@sol.ARPA> <29640@sun.uucp> <363@zuring.cwi.nl> <1483@ist.UUCP> Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston Lines: 16