The New String recommendations

re: The New String recommendations

Maurits — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 17:28:31 GMT

"Case-insensitive identifiers in standards like XML and HTTP"

Whoa! HTTP is case-insensitive, but XML is case-sensitive. So is XHTML.

re: The New String recommendations

Michael S. Kaplan — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 19:11:12 GMT

Well, yes and no -- a lot of the things that use XML are themselves case insensitive, or give the option to be. And even then there are the normalization issues -- which can still point to more appropriate sdtring comparison methods. :-)

re: The New String recommendations

Ben — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:27:00 GMT

I love it! I wish someone would go ahead and write this exact article for using non-.NET APIs as well.

re: The New String recommendations

Michael S. Kaplan — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 22:07:47 GMT

There is a brief mention towards the end of the paper:

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Notes for Native Code

Native code is susceptible to similar types of errors, but they occur much less commonly. Default behaviors of string operations are not based on the locale, but are typically ordinal-based (strcmp or wcscmp, for example). Our recommendations for using managed code mirror this behavior. Finally, where linguistic flexibility is desirable, culture parameters can typically be passed in (see CompareString).
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Beyond that, I have posted on the issue here from time to time and there is work to improve the documentation on the Windows side in future versions of the Platform SDK.

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