tango.text.locale.Posix broken

I agree that the string+offset+length is odd. I think it was done that way because that matches the Windows API function for doing string compares, but.. that's still unnecessary :)

I'm also guessing that strcoll is used instead of strcoll_l because strcoll_l is only in the Posix 1.2008 standard; strcoll is more likely to be available on more platforms. Or it could be that the original author wasn't aware of it. Or it wasn't even available at the time of writing (four years ago!).

Also, I'm looking at this code and.. wtf. Really. Look at the code for compareString. It slices the source strings into s1 and s2, and then.. slices s1 and s2 again with the same offsets? WHAT

I'm surprised that this code even works. Or does it?