On Jul 7, 2008, at 12:21, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> My question is: why? Shouldn't they all use the same function for
> comparison? I'm happy to dupe this implementation for citext, but I
> don't understand it. Should not all comparisons be executed
> consistently?
Let me try to answer my own question by citing this comment:
/* * Since we only care about equality or not-equality, we can avoid
all the * expense of strcoll() here, and just do bitwise comparison. */
So, the upshot is that the = and <> operators are not locale-aware,
yes? They just do byte comparisons. Is that really the way it should
be? I mean, could there not be strings that are equivalent but have
different bytes?
Thanks,
David
