On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:47:21AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Guido Neitzer <guido.neitzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I have linked the LC_COLLATE for de_DE.UTF-8 to the same LC_COLLATE > > file that works fine with ISO8859-1. > > Um ... why would you expect that to work at all? Aren't the collation > files very dependent on the encoding? You'd think so, but standard Mac OS X/FreeBSD just link the UTF-8 locales to the US-ASCII locales. So by default: de_DE.UTF-8 links to ln_LN.US_ASCII All he's done is change it so the UTF-8 locale uses latin9 rather than ascii ordering. It obviously breaks for actual UTF-8 strings, but the C library doesn't support that anyway... Multibyte collation simply isn't supported so linking files at random won't crash anything. All the more reason to go for something like ICU... -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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