From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
Date: December 30, 2004 4:14:59 PST
To: Kevin Ballard <email@hidden>
Cc: Cocoa-Dev Development <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Sorting unicode strings
On Wednesday, December 29, 2004, at 11:38PM, Kevin Ballard
<email@hidden> wrote:
I've never really been clear on this. The docs for NSLiteralSearch say
it does a byte-for-byte comparison of strings. Is there any reason to
use this aside from a speed boost? Is there any situation in which you
would definitely *not* want to use this?
I'm not sure of this myself as this is the first time I'm sorting
unicode strings.
But after brief testing, calling compare: or compare:options: with
NSLiteralSearch appear to do the same exact thing. This makes sense
as the docs mention:
"Search and comparison are currently performed as if the
NSLiteralSearch option were specified. As the Unicode encoding becomes
more widely used, and the need for more flexible comparison increases,
the default behavior will be changed accordingly."
So the final code I'll use will just be compare:. That way, I'm
ensured to always use the default behavior.
--
Rick Sharp
Instant Interactive(tm)
