What are the reasons not to use “==” to compare localized strings in .NET? How would the comparison execute in regards to the CultureInfo if I do use it?
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What are the reasons not to use “==” to compare localized strings in .NET? How would the comparison execute in regards to the CultureInfo if I do use it?
==is culture-insensitive – it’s a simple ordinal comparison. So two strings which are culturally equal – or even equal in terms of other canonicalization forms – may not be equal via==. It basically treats each string like achararray.