>> As I replied in that subthread, that creates a worse problem: if you
>> only change the provider when the locale is C, then what about when the
>> locale is *not* C?
>>
>> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>> initdb -D data --locale=fr_FR.UTF-8
>> ...
>> provider: icu
>> ICU locale: en-US
>>
>> I believe that case is an order of magnitude worse than the other cases
>> you brought up in that subthread.
>>
>> It also leaves the fundamental problem in place that LOCALE only
>> applies to the libc provider, which multiple people have agreed is not
>> acceptable.
Note that most of PostgreSQL users in Japan do initdb
--no-locale. Almost never use other than C locale because the users do
not rely on system collation. Most database have an extra column which
represents the pronunciation in Hiragana or Katakana.
Best reagards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS LLC
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