/** Locale-independent Unicode code-point ordering for canonical fleet evidence. */
export function compareCodePoints(left: string, right: string): number {
  const leftPoints = Array.from(left, (character): number => character.codePointAt(0) ?? 0);
  const rightPoints = Array.from(right, (character): number => character.codePointAt(0) ?? 0);
  const sharedLength = Math.min(leftPoints.length, rightPoints.length);

  for (let index = 0; index < sharedLength; index += 1) {
    const leftPoint = leftPoints[index];
    const rightPoint = rightPoints[index];
    if (leftPoint === undefined || rightPoint === undefined) continue;
    if (leftPoint !== rightPoint) return leftPoint < rightPoint ? -1 : 1;
  }
  return leftPoints.length < rightPoints.length
    ? -1
    : leftPoints.length > rightPoints.length
      ? 1
      : 0;
}