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Re:Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of s... by mike_hock on Thursday January 12, 2023 @02:34AM (#34350328)
> Most tasks assuming ASCII work fine on UTF-8 too (eg sorting).

cliché < clichñ < clich́e

NFC vs. NFD.

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Re:Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of s... by yorwba on Thursday January 12, 2023 @03:28AM (#34350699)
b'cliche\xcc\x81' (cliché) < b'clichz' (clichz) < b'clich\xc3\xa9' (cliché) < b'clich\xc3\xb1' (clichñ)

Combining marks like accents are placed after the base character.

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Re:Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of s... by mike_hock on Friday January 13, 2023 @06:48AM (#34366546)
You're right. Sorry, I get confused by Qt's multi-decade old bug that they're not only refusing to fix but keep porting to new major versions.

I bet they have unit tests asserting that the bug is still present.

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