Re: Sorting Problem

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Dennis Gearon wrote:

> Dennis Bj�rklund wrote:
>
> > In the future we need indexes that depend on the locale (and a lot of other changes).
> >
>
> I agree. I've been looking at the web on this subject a lot lately. I
> am **NOT** a microslop fan, but SQL-SERVER even lets a user define a
> language(maybe encoding) down to the column level!
>
> I've been reading on GNU-C and on languages, encoding, and localization.
>
> http://pauillac.inria.fr/~lang/hotlist/free/licence/fsf96/drepper/paper-1.html
> http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechSingleTipDetailPage_IDX/1,2366,1222,00.html
>
>
> There are three basic approaches to doing different langauges in computerized text:
>
>     A/ various adaptations of the 8 bit character set, I.E. the ISO-8859-x series.
>     B/ wide characters
>     ********This should be how Postgress stores data internally.********
>     C/ Multibyte characters
>     ********This is how Postgress should default to sending data OUT of the application,
>             i.e. to the display or the web, or other system applications********

SQL has a system for defining character set specifications, collations and
such (per column/literal in some cases).  We should probably look at it
before making decisions on how to do things.