Re: PostgreSQL, Mac OS X and locales

From: Guido Neitzer <guido(dot)neitzer(at)pharmaline(dot)de>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL, Mac OS X and locales
Date: 2005-11-02 11:25:41
Message-ID: 02902D0A-D80A-45A1-9BAD-D40DF81E32AB@pharmaline.de
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On 02.11.2005, at 11:47 Uhr, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> Ah you noticed that. Yes, many of the UTF-8 locales in FreeBSD simply
> point to the ASCII versions which doesn't exactly work very well.

Right.

> Only another FreeBSD system, these files are not portable. However,
> the
> source files for these are plain text so you can edit them. I beleive
> the source is in the C library. Find the source files, edit them and
> recompile. Then just copy the LC_COLLATE file over.

I have to look how to do this. I have build locales a very long time
ago, but currently I'm looking where to start ... perhaps with the
Darwin sources. We will see.

> You might also want to look at some of the other predefined locale
> collate orders, maybe someone has put some effert in getting an order
> right for another language.

I tried a lot of them and the all didn't work for me.

cug

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