Re: help understanding collation order - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: help understanding collation order
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Msg-id 1295325369.12898.11.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: help understanding collation order  (raf <raf@raf.org>)
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On tis, 2011-01-18 at 10:33 +1100, raf wrote:
> p.s. if anyone in debian locale land is listening,
> 'E' does not sort before ','. what were you thinking? :-)

What is actually happening is that the punctuation is sorted in a second
pass after the letters.  Which is both correct according to the relevant
standards and also practical in many situations.

It's usually actually the Mac OS X locales that are broken.



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