After reading a past discussion related to utf-8 support in glibc 2.2, I was not sure of the conclusion regarding strcoll. I understood that all char functions work on bytes. None of them handle utf-8 in the sense that all these functions do not recognise any utf-8 encoded character, but only bytes. Now depending on what kind of processing they actually do, they can correctly handle utf-8 data (e.g. strcpy).
IMHO, strcoll cannot correctly handle utf-8 encoded characters since collation need explicit knowledge of characters. For instance, collation rules for Finnish are particular regarding some letters that are encoded on more than one byte in utf-8(e.g. ö, xC3B6 in utf-8). Paul __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
