On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:23:07PM +0100, Tomi NA wrote: > I'm using PosgreSQL 8.1.2 on linux and want to load UTF-8 encoded varchars. > While I can store and get at stored text correctly, the ORDER BY places all > accented characters (Croatian, in this case - probably marked hr_HR) after > non-accented characters. > This is no showstopper, but it does affect the general perception of > application quality. Collation is a function of the OS. Basically, is the locale of your database setup for UTF-8 collation? It would probably be called hr_HR.UTF-8. > is there an official way to set up UTF8 collation so that "SELECT first_name > FROM persons ORDER BY first_name" works as expected? Yes, setup the locale correctly. In general, postgresql should give the same results as sort(1) on the command-line. Use that to experiment. LC_ALL=hr_HR.UTF-8 sort < input > output Hope this helps, -- 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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