Re: Using multi-locale support in glibc

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:46:00PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> > 1. Is something supported by glibc usable for us (re portability to
> > non-glibc platforms)?
>
> Nope.  Sorry.

Do we have some platforms that don't have any multi-language support? I
mean, we don't have a complete thread library but a wrapper around the
ones used on the platform. Couldn't we make a similar wrapper that used
glibc if it was available, windows native if it's available, etc...

That way we conform to the platform rather than a version of the
unicode collating set that postgresql happens to ship with it.

For example, Windows doesn't use standard Unicode sorting rules, do we
care if people come complaining that postgresql sorts different from
their app?
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