Re: multi-national character sets? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From tolik@aaanet.ru (Anatoly K. Lasareff)
Subject Re: multi-national character sets?
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Msg-id 86r95pi08a.fsf@tolikus.hq.aaanet.ru
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In response to multi-national character sets?  (Louis Bertrand <louis@bertrandtech.on.ca>)
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>>>>> "LB" == Louis Bertrand <louis@bertrandtech.on.ca> writes:

 LB> Hello all,
 LB> I'm looking for a few good pointers to docs on how to handle multinational
 LB> character sets (European exclusively) with PostgreSQL and PHP for a
 LB> web database application. Currently using PHP 3.0.16 and PostgreSQL 6.5.2
 LB> but I can upgrade if that helps.

 LB> I see in the docs that you can compile in multi-byte support, but I have
 LB> no idea how that works, for comparisons with LIKE or regexps, as well as
 LB> for sorting with ORDER BY. Do "c" and "c-cedille" or "e" and "e-aigu" end
 LB> up together or do I need to handle that programmatically?

 LB> I don't mind doing the homework, but I'm hoping somebody on this list can
 LB> point me in the right direction.

See doc/README.mb and doc/README.locale files in the distribution
set.

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