Programming

I am comparing two multibyte characters in two different platforms having different LC_CTYPE variables, they are returning different values.

One of the variable is sigma initialised to "\317\203"
and the other one is empty string i.e, ""

Below is the scenario of the two platforms:

In AIX:
LC_CTYPE="en_GB"

In Linux:
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

Sybase says en_GB is like Sybase iso_1: New Functionality in Adaptive Server Enterprise Version 12.5.x

and similar to iso 8859-1, often called or similar to latin-1, an one-character code page or font like ASCII but with the upper 128 loaded with western european support, umlau-A, diaresis-o and such.

UTF-8 is an variable width encoding of wide unicode such that the ASCII characters match in one character.

So, until the high bit comes on, you are pretty good, perhaps give or take a few symbol shifts like # versus pound-sterling L with slashes.

Yes, that is quite possible. What mechanism are you using to compare them? Are you trying to see if they map to the same glyph or codepoint?

I am calculating the length of strings and substracting one from another.
For calculating length mbrlen() function is used, is it this function which is causing the problem in diff. locales.

How can i make my function return same value in both platforms?

@DGPickett : Are my characters getting in high bit which is creating problem?

Can you write a short example program which shows the problem or show us the relevant part of your code?