[Bug 10767] lstrcmp and others do not compare punctuation characters correctly

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10767





--- Comment #36 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com>  2010-08-01 07:51:42 ---
(In reply to comment #35)
> > If you think that Wine should copy unicode collation tables from Windows
> > and be done with it at least think of a legal subsequences of this approach.
> 
> I'm not a lawyer, so I don't see much difference between reimplementing
> proprietary api with 1000+ functions and reimplementing particular sorting
> order.

Don't you see a difference between reimplementing something from scratch
and copying from other place, especially since that place is Windows?

> Wine implements windows-specific character encodings after all.

Wine implements it using the data tables provided by unicode.org

> Please clarify this to me: If windows-specific tables were somehow obtained
> (e.g. indirectly via calling specific API functions, sorting strings, etc.),
> will they be incorporated in upstream wine? Or will this be rejected as
> possible legal hazard? I'd like to see some comments before I start wasting
> time on this. Any directions would be welcome.

Copying Windows data into Wine is not acceptable.

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