Re: [gtkmm] comparing Glib::ustring's ...

[Matthew Walton <matthew alledora co uk>]

bart wrote:

> That's exactly my problem, i don't want that ;-)
> "AAA" shouldn't be smaller then "aaa", should it?

It will be if you want it to be alphabetically first. If you're sorting 
using < as an ordering and you want A to come before a, A < a must be true.

> Do you think language settings can make a difference while comparing
> strings? This can be important to me, since i mostly work in an mixed
> english/dutch environment.

They can make a difference, yes. In some languages you need extra 
letters to be taken into consideration - or completely different ones - 
and they're not necessarily in nice numeric order like they are in 7-bit 
ASCII.