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style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 13px;" lang="x-western">I've
been reading about locales, encodings, sort orders, the to_ascii
function and, embarrasingly, I'm more confused than enlightened.:
What I want is very simple:
1) I want the database to correctly accept, store, and display
alphabetic characters, including European accented characters, entered
and viewed in HTML
forms.
2) I want sorting to ignore the diacritical marks so that, for example,
u, u-accent, and u-umlaut are all sorted as if they were plain u.
3) I want sorting to ignore non-alphanumerics, letter case, and white
space.
To illustrate, the following data is in sorted order:
St-Émile
stendahl
st ènders
St. Epson
Can someone tell me what combination of PostgreSQL and Linux settings I
need for this? It seems like a very basic question, but I'm just dense,
I guess. I've tried a half dozen time-consuming configs without
success.
Thank you.
John Gunther
