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Re:The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto by haberman on Monday April 30, 2012 @05:02PM (#3911484)
Do you think that sort-by-unicode-codepoint is good enough to use for technical contexts where most content is english or at least represented by the Latin alphabet? For example, do you think it's a valid choice to sort by codepoint for Java symbol names in a code refactoring tool?

I ask because I expect that sort-by-codepoint is an order of magnitude more efficient.

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Re:The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto by lmm on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @09:02AM (#3914083)
It's not a valid choice for anything that actually uses unicode. E.g. if I have functions caféHide() and caféShow() I expect them to be next to each other. I think Java should perhaps have required symbol names to be ASCII, but it doesn't and Java tools should deal with this.
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