Re: need asap: bg_BG locale for FreeBSD

Palle,

thanks for the message. I've created bulgarian locale
from similar russian sources (I believe it's CP1251 charset).
Hope it would be ok.

Regards,
Oleg

On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Palle Girgensohn wrote:

> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:51:23 +0200
> From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)partitur(dot)se>
> To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
> Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [SQL] need asap: bg_BG locale for FreeBSD
>
> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm going to Bulgaria this week to setup FreeBSD server running
> > postgres and would like to know if somebody has an experience
> > with postgres and bulgarian locale. Actually, I need
> > bg_BG locale for FreeBSD. interesting that searching for
> > subject in internet doesn't provide any information.
> > The only thing I found is bg_BG locale for Linux (Redhat)
>
> I created a Swedish LC_COLLATE locale part for FreeBSD a while
> back, with the specific purpose of using it with PostgreSQL,
> and it was not very hard.
>
> For sorting stuff:
> Check /usr/src/share/colldef (the sorting algoritm is defined
> by LC_COLLATE). I don't anything about bulgarian, though. Is it
> using cyrillic characters? Try using one of the russion locales
> to start with.
>
> For character representation (LC_CTYPE), I have no experience,
> but it should also be fairly easy. Maybe Bulgarian uses a
> similar character set to for example Russian? You will only
> need a character locale for each Check /usr/src/share/mklocale
>
> For a complete locale, you would also need timedef
> (/usr/src/share/timedef).
>
> colldef(1) is man page to check for sorting (collate)...
>
> mklocale(1) is for locale creation.
>
> Good luck!
> Palle
>

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