On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> For the theoretical specification of a collation, it might suffice to
> know the character repertoire. But I think in practice, the
> implementation of a collation will require knowing the specific
> character encoding.
The named entity that is called a collation works for a character
repertoire. It would need to handle different charsets for that repertoire
of course. So there would be one collation called say ucs_sv and not
utf8_sv, utf16_sv, utf32_sv.
Anyway, this is not a problem.
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/Dennis Björklund
