The following caused a hard-to-diagnose problem for a user of the survey
package. Presumably this is a strange Unicode thing, but is there a
convenient reference for how the collation order is determined? I am
surprised that adding the same character to the end of two strings of the
same length can change the sorting order.
in en_US.utf8 locale
> "1//"<"10/"
[1] TRUE
> "1//2"<"10/2"
[1] FALSE
in C locale on the same system.
> "1//"<"10/"
[1] TRUE
> "1//2"<"10/2"
[1] TRUE
[This is in r-devel of March 6, but the problem that was reported to me
involved Windows vs Linux on released versions]
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle
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