- // prefer to use CompareString() if available as it's more efficient than
- // doing it manual or even using wxStricmp() (see #10375)
- switch ( ::CompareString(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, NORM_IGNORECASE,
+ // Prefer to use CompareString() if available as it's more efficient than
+ // doing it manually or even using wxStricmp() (see #10375)
+ //
+ // Also note that not using NORM_STRINGSORT may result in not having a
+ // strict weak ordering (e.g. s1 < s2 and s2 < s3 but s3 < s1) and so break
+ // algorithms such as std::sort that rely on it. It's also more consistent
+ // with the fall back version below.
+ switch ( ::CompareString(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT,
+ NORM_IGNORECASE | SORT_STRINGSORT,