On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 18:52, Tom Lane wrote: > Csaba Nagy <nagy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > ... So "tyty" and "tty" could be arguably both taken as double "ty", > > except that the official form is "tty"... but from a pronunciation point > > of view they ARE equivalent in hungarian. > > That's fair enough, but the question is should they be taken as > equivalent for string-comparison purposes? (English has plenty of > cases where different letter combinations sound alike, but we don't > consider them equal because of that. That may not be a good analogy > though. Also, if there are cases in other locales where strcoll > considers non-identical strings equal, the reasoning for it might be > quite different.) Well, I'm not an expert on this one. In any case, hungarian has phonetical writing as opposed to the etymological writing English has. So in hungarian there is a 1 to 1 mapping between the sounds and the signs used to depict them... so pronunciation is somewhat more relevant in sorting I guess. But I'm not a linguist so I won't know for sure. Cheers, Csaba.
