Re: Making the regression tests locale-proof

From: teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=)
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Making the regression tests locale-proof
Date: 2002-05-10 21:44:12
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:

> The assumption here is that all locales will choose the same sort order as
> long as they're dealing only with the core 26 letters. This does not have
> to be true in theory, but I think it works for the vast majority of
> practical cases.

Not for uppercase vs. lowercase versions of them.

With no locale used (straight ASCII), you get A C b, with a locale
you'll get A b C.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.

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