Hi Corinna,
On 10/30/2015 8:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Oct 29 18:21, Ken Brown wrote:
The fallback I had in mind is to return the shorter string if they have
different lengths and otherwise to revert to wcscmp.
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I had a longer look into this suggestion and the below code and it took
me some time to find out what bugged me with it:
What about str/wcsxfrm?
Per POSIX, calling strcmp on the result of strxfrm is equivalent to
calling strcoll (analogue with wcs*). If you extend *coll to perform an
extra check on the length, you will have cases in which the above rule
fails. You can't perform the length test on the result of *xfrm and
expect the same result as in *coll.
In fact, when calling LCMapStringW with NORM_IGNORESYMOLS (you would
have to do this anyway if we add this flag in *coll), the resulting
transformed strings created from the input strings "11" and "1.1" would
be identical, so a length test on the xfrm string is not meaningful at
all.
The bottom line is, afaics, we must make sure that CompareStringW and
LCMapStringW are called the same way, and their result/output has to be
returned to the caller. Performing an extra check in *coll which can't
be reliably performed in *xfrm is not feasible.
Does that make sense?
Yes, I see the problem, and I don't see a good way around it. So I
think we probably have to leave things as they are and live with the
fact that we can't do comparisons that ignore whitespace and punctuation.
The alternative of allowing str/wcscoll to return 0 on unequal strings
doesn't seem feasible in view of Eric's comments.