Re: Proper Unicode support

From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Alexey Mahotkin <alexm(at)hsys(dot)msk(dot)ru>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proper Unicode support
Date: 2003-08-11 08:52:56
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.56.0308111252320.17880@ra.sai.msu.su
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Alexey Mahotkin writes:
>
> > AFAIK, currently the codepoints are sorted in their numerical order. I've
> > searched the source code and could not find the actual place where this is
> > done. I've seen executor/nodeSort.c and utils/tuplesort.c. AFAIU, they
> > are generic sorting routines.
>
> PostgreSQL uses the operating system's locale routines for this. So the
> sort order depends on choosing a locale that can deal with Unicode.
>

sort order works, but upper/lower are broken.

>

Regards,
Oleg
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