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Equivalence of Unicode strings is strange

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Summary

Blog post exploring how Unicode string equivalence under collations in databases can produce surprising results. It explains that case-insensitive and accent-insensitive collations can make distinct strings compare as equal, discusses the Unicode Collation Algorithm and ICU, and highlights implications for sorting, grouping, and hash-based operations in DBMSs.

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