X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:03:09 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Japanese/Chinese language question Message-ID: <20100121160309.GA8726@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20100121134055.GE2402@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100121154120.GF2402@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100121154120.GF2402@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Jan 21 16:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 21 10:04, Mark J. Reed wrote: [Intersting stuff] > > Thanks for the info. However... > > > linux$ cat jp.c > #include > #include > #include > > int > main (int argc, char **argv) > { > setlocale (LC_ALL, "ja_JP.UTF-8"); > /* U+3042 = Hiragana letter A > U+30a2 = Katakana letter A > U+ff71 = Halfwidth Katakana letter A */ > printf ("%d\n", wcscoll (L"\x3042", L"\x30a2")); > printf ("%d\n", wcscoll (L"\xff71", L"\x30a2")); > return 0; > } > linux$ gcc jp.c -o jp > linux$ ./jp > -83 > -340 > > I expected that at least one of the comparisons returns 0. > Am I doing something wrong? Uh, I think I understand now. I wasn't actually doing something wrong, rather my expectations were wrong. The idea of the coll/xfrm functions is to generate sorting orders. The order as such is locale-dependent, but different strings shouldn't actually being treated as equal. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple