[fpc-pascal] string comparison on various platforms

[Geno Roupsky]

2006/5/3, Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at t-online.de>:
>
> Hi,
>
> from digging the sources I know, that on Unix-like Systems the
> comparison of strings is done according to the current locale (Pascals
> "strcomp" is mapped to C-libs "strcoll").
>
> Can I assume that this is done similar on all other platforms, too?


At least where is is possible, I mean where the OS supports locales

I'm asking myself if I have to consider something special when sorting
> strings or if a comparison using the RTL function will allways be
> "correct" (not talking of special sort orders for rarely occuring
> cases).


Yes, if for any reason you stumble upon a bug it is most probably due to
miss configuring the OS locale definitions.


--
Geno Roupsky
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