Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 - PLUG-IN Manual page 486

Functions Related to UTF-8
Parameters
This function takes the following parameters:
s0
s1
n
Returns
This function returns one of the following values:
• A positive number if
• 0 if the two string are identical, ignoring case.
• A negative number if
Description
This function has the following rules:
• If both UTF-8 strings are NULL or zero-length, 0 is returned.
• If one of the strings is NULL or zero-length, the NULL/zero-length string is
smaller.
• If one or both of the strings are not UTF-8, system provided
used.
• If one of the two strings contains no 8-bit characters,
• The strings are compared after they are converted to lower-case UTF-8.
• Each character is compared from the beginning.
Evaluation occurs in this order:
• If the length of one character is shorter then the other, the difference of the two
lengths is returned.
• If the length of the corresponding characters is the same, each byte in the
characters is compared.
• If there is a difference between two bytes, the difference is returned.
• If one string is shorter then the other, the difference is returned.
486 Netscape Directory Server Plug-In Programmer's Guide • August 2002
A null-terminated UTF-8 string.
A null-terminated UTF-8 string.
The number of UTF-8 characters (not bytes) from s0 and s1 to
compare.
is after .
s0 s1
is after .
s1 s0
is
strcasecmp
is used.
strcasecmp