Re: ICU integration

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Doug Doole <ddoole(at)salesforce(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ICU integration
Date: 2016-09-09 13:39:47
Message-ID: CA+OCxowbiorSYrp2F25+NXYNj8c2RS9S35ZP0MbVX3bOEjohkA@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
>> We needed a specific version that was newer than that shipped with
>> RHEL 6 (or in EPEL) iirc.
>
> Sure hope that's not true of the currently-proposed patch :-(

Looking back at my old emails, apparently ICU 5.0 and later include
ucol_strcollUTF8() which avoids the need to convert UTF-8 characters
to 16 bit before sorting. RHEL 6 has the older 4.2 version of ICU.

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