[fpc-devel] _wcsicmp

[Chris Dryburgh]

On 04/12/14 07:16 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
> The closest equivalent is probably sysutils.UnicodeCompareText(). It 
> uses CompareStringW on Windows though, and on Unix it converts both 
> strings to uppercase, locale-sensitive-wise, and compares those.
>
As a general rule it is better to convert to lower case before comparing 
Unicode characters. Accents can get lost in conversion to uppercase. 
Accent loss does not happen or is much more rare in conversion to lower 
case.