Re: string encoding

[email protected] ("Hong Zhang") Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:51:14 -0800
Newsgroups perl.perl6.internals.unicode
Organization Stratum8 Corp.
Message-ID <057b01c0987b$badaba70$2d031dc0@wora>

> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:39:10PM -0800, Hong Zhang wrote:
> > But you can not use memcmp() to compare binary order of two UTF-32
> > strings on little endian machines, even both strings are using
> > the same endian.
>
> Yes, you can.

Yes and no. You can use for eq(), but not for cmp(). On little endian
machine, the memcmp() will first compare the least significant byte, not
most.

Hong