The short answer is that by default, Perl compares strings (C<lt>,
C<le>, C<cmp>, C<ge>, C<gt>) based only on the code points of the
characters. In the above case, the answer is "after", since
-C<0x00C1> > C<0x00C0>.
+C<0x00C1> E<gt> C<0x00C0>.
The long answer is that "it depends", and a good answer cannot be
given without knowing (at the very least) the language context.
=head1 AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSE
-Copyright 2001-2002 Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+Copyright 2001-2002 Jarkko Hietaniemi E<lt>jhi@iki.fiE<gt>
This document may be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.