Re: Ordering and unicode

On Thursday 10 November 2005 21:31, Michael Schuerig wrote:
> I have a database on PostgreSQL 8.0.3 with unicode (utf-8) encoding,
> client encoding is set to unicode, too. LC_COLLATE for the cluster is
> de_DE.iso885915@euro. I noticed that that collation doesn't work for
> two-byte characters, apparently they are ordered bytewise.
>
> My current conjecture is that I'd have to re-initialize the cluster
> with a utf-8 collation. Is this correct? Right now I don't have
> access to the machine and can't check this.

Yes, it is the case. Just checked on another installation. Thanks for
listening...

Michael

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