Re: Correct Unicode sorting depends on how initdb was run - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Correct Unicode sorting depends on how initdb was run
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Msg-id 2442.1060613579@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Correct Unicode sorting depends on how initdb was run  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Nils Philippsen writes:
>> Hmm. I ask myself whether this is desired behaviour, too.

> No, but it will take a lot of work to fix this, such as implementing our
> own locale library.

We should, however, look into using C99-spec <wctype.h> routines where
available --- the existing logic that depends on <ctype.h> stuff cannot
work with multibyte encodings.  I am not sure if this has any
user-visible effects beyond upper()/lower().

            regards, tom lane

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