RE: Xpath transform changes and questions

So what you're saying, which is what I understood from before, is that if we
sort based on the character domain, then the result should be the same
regardless of encoding.

Martin, do you agree?

Thanks,
John Boyer
Software Development Manager
PureEdge Solutions, Inc. (formerly UWI.Com)
jboyer@PureEdge.com


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[Martin Dürst]
>At 00/03/17 12:47 -0800, John Boyer wrote:
>iii) If everything else checks out, we can get rid of exact order and just
>>use lex order provided that lex ordering in UTF-16 results in the same
order
>>as lex ordering in UTF-8 (which is Christopher Maden's claim).
>
>This is not true. Surrogate pairs are the counterexample.
>And of course it is not true for any other character encoding,
>except in a very limited sense for iso-8859-1 and us-ascii.

I was referring to ordering on characters, not bytes.  It should be obvious
that bytewise sorting on a two-byte and a variable-byte encoding will be
different.

-Chris

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