FW: [ nunit-Bugs-1923458 ] Unexpected result from AreEqual/ANE for encoded strings

Hi All,

I'm forwarding this bug to the list for discussion. You can comment here or
on the bug.

The gist of it is that Assert.AreEqual on strings uses string.Compare and
can find two strings equal even if they use different encodings. This makes
sense to me but it isn't how string.Equals or operator == work.

Your thoughts?

Charlei

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Category: framework
Group: 2.4.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Morten Mertner (mnmr)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Unexpected result from AreEqual/ANE for encoded strings

Initial Comment:
I would expect the following test to pass, however, it does not. 

The strings do show up as different in the debugger (obviously, since
they're encoded differently) and the built-in == operator correctly returns
false when comparing the two variables.

[Test]
public void Simple()
{
	string input = "Hello World";
	byte[] data = Encoding.UTF32.GetBytes( input );
	string garbage = Encoding.UTF8.GetString( data );
	Assert.AreNotEqual( input, garbage );
}


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