Thread: order by accents?

order by accents?

From
Patrick Coulombe
Date:
hi,
if I do a query like this one :

SELECT name from medias ORDER BY name

name
----
AAAA
CCCC
EEEE
VVVV
ZZZZ
ÉCCC
----
6 rows


Why the record : ÉCCC is at the end?
HOW can I fix this?

Thank you
Patrick


Re: order by accents?

From
Web Manager
Date:
Patrick Coulombe wrote:
> 
> hi,
> if I do a query like this one :
> 
> SELECT name from medias ORDER BY name
> 
> name
> ----
> AAAA
> CCCC
> EEEE
> VVVV
> ZZZZ
> ÉCCC
> ----
> 6 rows
> 
> Why the record : ÉCCC is at the end?
> HOW can I fix this?
> 
> Thank you
> Patrick

Hello,

I have the same problem (the character is not recognized - we also use
french) and it seems that the only way around this "bug" is to install
Postgres with a local package... but many told me that is was slower and
not very useful... I did not try it.

Instead, we plan to create a second column with same french data but
without accents... The query will be based on that field  for the order
by needs... not great, but I will do exactly what we expect and no
add-ons.

Hope this helps!

Bonne journée!
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Marc Andre Paquin