Re: String.Compare seems to fail when it should not

Per Bolmstedt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dotnet.advanced
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Define "won't work". Also, can you shed some more light on why it "won't
work"?

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:32:02 -0400, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Lorion?=
<[email protected]> wrote:

>It won't work with international characters.
>
>Sébastien
>On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Per Bolmstedt
><[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:23:16 -0400, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Lorion?=
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> by using OrdinalIgnoreCase, you are limiting yourself to only the
>>> first 128 chars of ASCII, which in 2008 is kinda out of fashion...
>>
>> How so?
>>
>> According to "New Recommendations for Using Strings in Microsoft .NET
>> "[1]; "Comparisons made using OrdinalIgnoreCase are behaviorally the
>> composition of two calls: calling ToUpperInvariant on both string
>> arguments, and doing an Ordinal comparison.".
>>
>> 1: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973919.aspx

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