Re: should guidelines say something about NOT using IMPLIED?

["C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>]

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Randy Presuhn wrote:
> ...
> > +      have to be replicated.  Designers who are nonetheless tempted to
> > +      use IMPLIED because it results in a "natural" sort order for text
> > +      string index objects are urged to remember that this is at best
> > +      true only for US-ASCII strings and isn't true at all for general
> > +      UTF-8 strings.
> ...
> 
> It can fail miserably for ASCII if the strings are mixed case or
> the language isn't English.  (Consider the traditional sorting rules
> for Spanish.)  I think "at best" is being rather generous.

So, what should I say instead?

//cmh