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Lexicographic encoding of UTF-8 byte sequences matches lexicographic order of the sequence of Unicode code-points. So you can sort UTF-8 strings as byte strings
by ursusmaritimus 2y ago
Lexicographic encoding of UTF-8 byte sequences matches lexicographic order of the sequence of Unicode code-points. So you can sort UTF-8 strings as byte strings. Not that sorting by code-points has much meaning, but you can use the Unicode collation algorithm first.
- remram 2y agoTIL, thanks. That makes sense given how the length prefixes look like but I never thought about it. I wonder if this was by chance or if the UTF-8 creator thought about it.
- mzs 2y ago% printf "%s\n" A B | sort A B % printf "%s" A B | xxd -b -c4 00000000: 11110000 10011101 10010000 10110100 .... 00000004: 11110000 10011101 10010000 10110101 .... % printf "%s" A B | xxd -c1 -ps | sort | xxd -r -ps | xxd -b -c4 00000000: 10010000 10010000 10011101 10011101 .... 00000004: 10110100 10110101 11110000 11110000 .... % printf "%s" A B | xxd -c1 -ps | sort | xxd -r -ps ????????