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		ts4z on April 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: American flag sort Seems like it should work for arbitrary byte strings (any charset, any encoding)but obviously the performance characteristics will differ because of non-uniform distribution. But that happens even in ASCII.

AmblingAvocado on April 26, 2024 [–]

Yes, you’ll get something sorted based on the bytes in the string but it won’t be lexicographically correct - for example, à will be sorted after b.

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