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Re: New D07 test failure



Hi,

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:30:56 -0800
>  Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > On Feb 28,  9:51am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
>  > }
>  > } OK, so we can't rely on the collation sequence in UTF-8 being consistent
>  > } across implementations, and we can't rely on "sort" either.  Any other
>  > } ideas before I simply remove the sort tests?
>  >
>  > Maybe you just need to choose the inputs more carefully?
>
>  Yes, maybe it's worth trying with a different well-ordered alphabet before
>  giving up.  Note those really are Greek upper case letters even though some
>  may be rendered the same as Roman.  (And people still say a classical
>  education is useless.  Sheesh.)
>
>  Ismail's later problem looked like it was to do with "0" sorting before
>  ".".  Perhaps not making assumptions about punctuation symbols also
>  helps...  If "0" doesn't come before "t", I will lose interest in fixing
>  this.

This fixed it for me, great thanks.

Regards,
ismail

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