[Lazarus] UTF8 string compare with correct locale sorting

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Jürgen Hestermann schrieb:
> Am 2013-10-18 11:39, schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich:
>  > Sorting can be done not only by locale and alphabetically, but also 
> in phone book and more sort orders.
> 
> But I don't know any sort order that sorts german umlauts at the end of 
> the whole list (as UTF8CompareText does).

Most probably it sorts by codepoints, or by bytes.

> Such a sort order is not usable for me.

Such sorting is useless in almost every language.

>  > Just in German you have a couple of options to sort umlauts, and such 
> national stuff is covered by unicode standard libraries.
> 
> As it seems these libraries are not available for UTF8 directly (only 
> after time consuming conversion to UTF16).

Perhaps the new UnicodeStrings will provide more useful solutions?

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