Re: ICU locale validation / canonicalization

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 12:54 PM Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> In our tests you can see colstrength=primary is used to mean "case
> insensitive". That's where I picked up the "colstrength" keyword, which
> is also present in the ICU sources, but now that you ask I'm embarassed
> that I don't see the keyword itself documented very well.
>
> This document
> https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/locale/#keywords
> lists keywords, but colstrength is not there. It's easy enough to find
> in the ICU source; I'm probably just missing the document.

The fact that you're figuring out how it all works from reading the
source code does not give me a warm feeling.

> But it seems like a better place for us than libc for the reasons I
> mentioned in the other thread.

It may be. But sometimes I feel that's not setting our sights very high. :-(

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Robert Haas
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