Portable locale usage

garabik-news-2005-05 at kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk garabik-news-2005-05 at kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk
Tue Sep 6 16:58:09 EDT 2011


Thomas Jollans <t at jollybox.de> wrote:
 
> It looks like you don't actually care about the encoding: in your first
> example, you use the default system encoding, which you do not control,
> and in your second example, you're using two different encodings on the
> two platforms. So why do you care whether or not the default uses ISO
> 8859-2 ?
>

Maybe because using 8859-2 locale, (unicode) strings not representable in the
encodings will be sorted - how? 

I would care, I prefer not to have undefined behaviour.

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