Re: Case insensitivity seems to ignore lower bound of interval

[John Cowan]

Eric Bischoff scripsit:

> My understanding of the word "collation" is :
>    "A", "a",  and "à" are "equivalent"with respect to alphabetical order
> It is not :
>    "A", "a" and "à" are "next to each other" in alphabetical order.

Proper collation algorithms do work this way: differences in letters
are most important, but if they are equal, accents are looked at, and
if *they* are equal, case is looked at.  But that's not the way
strcmp() works in C, unfortunately; the best approximation available
to case-blindness is to sort b either before or after B.

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