Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

On Fri, Oct 16 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Yes, but libunistring is not a good basis for Emacs's i18n features,
> because it relies on the underlying C library for most of its
> features.  That doesn't allow writing programs that behave exactly the
> same on any platform, something that Emacs must support.  

IIUC, the behaviour of the recently added `string-collate-lessp' and
`string-collate-equalp' already depends on libc (and the locale data).

(Lest this be interpreted as criticism: IMHO, depending on POSIX
facilities is a good thing, even for emacs.)