[fpc-pascal] string comparison on various platforms

[Marc Santhoff]

Am Freitag, den 05.05.2006, 10:57 +0300 schrieb 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 

So I can use it the way it is on Windows, FreeBSD, Linux and (I think)
MacOS. That's pretty much.

>         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.

No bug, I'm only planning.

Thank for helping,
Marc