Re: Collate order on Mac OS X, text with diacritics in UTF-8

Very interesting discussion indeed.

It seems that "Postgresql:The world's most advanced open source database" can not work properly on "Mac OS X: the
world'smost advanced operating system" and FreeBSD. 

Don't you think postgresql.org should remove from their download page the links to FreeBSD and Mac OS X binary
packages?

Martin Flahault



Le 18 janv. 2010 à 08:10, Martijn van Oosterhout a écrit :

> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 09:10:53PM +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
>> Switching to ICU means trading our current inconsistency from platform
>> to platform for a different inconsistency which would be better in
>> some cases and worse in others.
>
> Or, you can have the cake and eat it too. That is, aim for the end goal
> and let people choose what library they want to use for sorting (that
> is, extend the meaning of the locale identifier). Patches for this
> should be in the archives somewhere. As I recall the reason this was
> rejected is that *BSD lack the capability of handling multiple
> collation algorithms at all at the libc level (that is, if you don't
> just tell people to use ICU in that case).
>
> Mac OS X doesn't have great POSIX locale support but at least they
> implemented strcoll_l.
>
> Have a nice day,
> --
> Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
>> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
>> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.