Re: ICU, locale and collation question

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Oscar Carlberg <oscar(dot)carlberg(at)fortnox(dot)se>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ICU, locale and collation question
Date: 2023-05-09 15:24:09
Message-ID: e581e338-deea-2901-aa37-bf882077c377@enterprisedb.com
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On 09.05.23 08:54, Oscar Carlberg wrote:
> Our initdb setup would then look like this for compatibility;
> -E 'UTF-8'
> --locale-provider=icu
> --icu-locale=sv-SE-x-icu
> --lc_monetary=sv_SE.UTF-8
> --lc-numeric=sv_SE.UTF-8
> --lc-time=sv_SE.UTF-8
> --lc-messages=en_US.UTF-8
>
> Should we still provide createdb with --lc-collate=C and --lc-ctype=C,
> or should we set those to sv_SE.UTF-8 as well?

You should set those to something other than C. It doesn't matter much
what exactly, so what you have there is fine.

Setting it to C would for example affect the ability of the text search
functionality to detect words containing non-ASCII characters.

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