On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:34:21AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > I pretty much lost interest in ICU upon reading that they use UTF-16 > as their internal format. > > http://userguide.icu-project.org/strings#TOC-Strings-in-ICU
The UTF-8 support has been steadily improving: For example, icu::Collator::compareUTF8() compares two UTF-8 strings incrementally, without converting all of the two strings to UTF-16 if there is an early base letter difference. http://userguide.icu-project.org/strings/utf-8 For all other encodings you should be able to use an iterator. As to performance I have no idea. The main issue with strxfrm() is its lame API. If it supported returning prefixes you'd be set, but as it is you need >10MB of memory just to transform a 10MB string, even if only the first few characers would be enough to sort... Mvg, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does > not attach much importance to his own thoughts. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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