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Decomposing things just to have different equality notions doesn't generalize.

How would you decompose a character string so that you could have a case-insensitive versus sensitive comparison?

:)

>>kazina+(OP)
> How would you decompose a character string

With a capitalization bit mask of course!

And you can speed up full equality comparisons with a quick cap equality check first.

(That is the how. The when is probably "never". :)

>>Neverm+0y
Don't forget to store the locale used for capitalization, too.

>>kazina+(OP)
Right, I did note that this decomposition isn’t always applicable. But it often is, and you should default to that when possible.