On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:57:14PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > You're going to run into problems no matter what you do, and as > transcoding could happen with each comparison arguably you need to make a > local copy of the string for each comparison, as otherwise you run the > risk of significant data loss as a sring gets transcoded back and forth > across a lossy boundary.
I think that this rules out what I was going to ask/suggested, having read Leo's patch. I was wondering why there wasn't a straight memcmp of the two strings whenever their encoding were the same. I presume that there are some encodings where two different binary representations are considered "equal", hence we can't blindly assume that a byte compare is sufficient. Nicholas Clark
