Re: qsort again (was Re: [PERFORM] Strange Create Index

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:18:39AM +0100, Jens-Wolfhard Schicke wrote:
> What I think as the biggest problem is the digit representation necessary
> for Radix-Sort in cases of locales which sort without looking at spaces. I
> assume that would be hard to implement. The same goes for the proposed
> mapping of string values onto 4/8-byte values.

Actually, this is easy. The standard C library provides strxfrm() and
other locale toolkits like ICU provide ucol_getSortKey(). Windows
provides LCMapString(). Just pass each string through this and take the
first four bytes of the result to form your integer key.

Have a nice day,
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