Various people have demonstrated a certain amount of confusion around the notion of a deterministic sort vs a deterministic comparison. This is an important issue for Unicode sorting and string comparison, so I put together some material into a tech note and passed it by the editorial committee.
http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn9/ Feedback is welcome. Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com ► “Eppur si muove” ◄