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From:
Leon Timmermans
Date:
November 26, 2008 12:47
Subject:
Re: Files, Directories, Resources, Operating Systems
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a51e610c0811261246o5f79834asaee2b940ccbd40c4@mail.gmail.com
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Mark Overmeer <mark@overmeer.net> wrote:
> Yes, you are right on this.  ASCII does not suffer from UTF-8, so my
> example was flawed.  The second 128 does cause problems.  How can glob()
> sort filenames, for instance?

That's a matter of collation, not (just) character set. TIMTOWTDI.
There is no right way to do it as it depends on the circumstances, but
a simple binary sort is not a bad default.

Leon Timmermans

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