Re: help understanding collation order

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: raf <raf(at)raf(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: help understanding collation order
Date: 2011-01-18 04:36:09
Message-ID: 1295325369.12898.11.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On tis, 2011-01-18 at 10:33 +1100, raf wrote:
> p.s. if anyone in debian locale land is listening,
> 'E' does not sort before ','. what were you thinking? :-)

What is actually happening is that the punctuation is sorted in a second
pass after the letters. Which is both correct according to the relevant
standards and also practical in many situations.

It's usually actually the Mac OS X locales that are broken.

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