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: make collate::hash
return the same hash for strings that collate the same
#5469
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−2
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Fixes #5212.
At first glance, calling
LCMapStringEx
withLCMAP_HASH
seems to be the obvious solution, but the docs state (emphasis mine):I briefly tested this and the warning seems to be true, as the following program finds some single-character strings that collate the same but yield different hashes:
Output:
This means that
LCMapStringEx
withLCMAP_HASH
is not good enough to meet the requirements in [locale.collate.virtuals]/3.For this reason, this PR computes the sort key first (by calling
do_transform
) and then hashes the sort key.