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A report from the documentation maintainer

A report from the documentation maintainer

Posted Nov 14, 2016 18:27 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: A report from the documentation maintainer by mstone_
Parent article: A report from the documentation maintainer

> If you byte sort purely english language text using UTF-8 encoding it's exactly the same as byte sorting purely english text using ASCII encoding.

Except that if you try that with the purely ENGLISH word "Noël", you can't sort that in ASCII :-)

Cheers,
Wol


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A report from the documentation maintainer

Posted Nov 14, 2016 20:23 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

You can absolutely byte sort it.

If you're saying that's inadequate for most people then, agreed, but that's been stated on this thread a few times already...


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