Re: XML Chunk Equality

On a side note, I'm not sure what programming language you prefer, but 
there's a very real issue here in Java to be aware of when writing this 
finding, or otherwise this will cause 90%+ of Java implementations to 
get the algorithm exactly backwards.

The apparently non-Locale sensitive methods such as the no-args versions 
of toUpperCase and toLowerCase behave according to the current locale 
rather than according to the Unicode case folding tables or any other 
fixed mapping. This means a lot of Java code breaks in Turkey when it 
uses the apparently locale insensitive methods.

To get true locale-insensitivity when comparing syntactic strings, in 
Java it is necessary to specify a locale. Counter-intuitive but true. 
The only way to get the behavior one wants is to say 
toUpperCase(Locale.EN) instead of just toUpperCase().

This is why I think adopting an explicit algorithm such as match a-z 
with A-Z, and don't change anything else is more likely to be 
implemented correctly than a mere statement that "Languages are compared 
case insensitively."

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@metalab.unc.edu
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