Re: [boost] Re: [Unicode strings] We're off

From: Rogier van Dalen (rogiervd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-05 02:26:48

On Apr 4, 2005 10:45 PM, Miro Jurisic <macdev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> In article <e094f9eb050404061051334a6b_at_[hidden]>,
>  Rogier van Dalen <rogiervd_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > If two strings are normalised and in the same encoding, you can find
> > one in the other by comparing bytes, yes.
> 
> No, you can't. Consider searching for "e" in a decomposed representation of
> e-acute -- you should find nothing, but you will get a false positive instead.

Whoops, I'd forgotten about that for a moment. But, if I'm not
mistaken again, you never get false negatives. False positives can be
skipped quite easily after basic_string::find has found one.

Regards,
Rogier