## Function: SB-UNICODE:UNICODE-EQUAL [![package](https://img.shields.io/badge/Package-SB--UNICODE-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999)](../) [![type](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-Function-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999)](../#function) [![github](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-View_the_source-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999&logo=github)](https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/src/code/target-unicode.lisp/) > Determines whether STRING1 and STRING2 are canonically equivalent after > casefoldin8 (that is, ignoring case differences) according to Unicode. The > START and END arguments behave like the arguments to STRING=. If :STRICT is > NIL, UNICODE= tests compatibility equavalence instead. ### Lambda list ```cl (sb-unicode::string1 sb-unicode::string2 &key sb-unicode::start1 sb-unicode::end1 sb-unicode::start2 sb-unicode::end2 sb-unicode::strict) ```