Re: Sorting Problem

Does including sorting rules for asian chars too ??
Do you know where I can find docuemt on this subject ??
thanks,
kathy

Maksim Likharev wrote:

>If you are talking about everything that lies under so called LATIN-1 (
>ISO-8859-1 )
>en_US encapsulates ( at least suppose to ) all those sorting rules,
>do not remember about accents tho.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kathy zhu [mailto:Kathy.zhu@Sun.COM]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 4:43 PM
>To: gearond@cvc.net
>Cc: Tom Lane; Tim Edwards; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Sorting Problem
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>This brings up another question:
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>Say initdb with en_US locale, and we have localized strings for
>different
>languages store in the db.
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>If we have a client in Germany, and want to see the text sorted in
>german. I
>mean that we want do db soring for german strings and display the result
>in the
>browser. How are we going to handle that ??
>
>thanks,
>kathy
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>Dennis Gearon wrote:
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>>Danke, Spacibo, gracias, thanks.
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>>Tom Lane wrote:
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>>>Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net> writes:
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>>>>You mean in his own local environment? So all his programs, console
>>>>operations, etc, will have the new encoding? Or 'LANG/LC_ALL' for
>>>>Posgres specifically?
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>>>
>>>I mean he needs to run initdb with C as the selected locale.  It has
>>>nothing to do with what environment his other programs run in.
>>>
>>>            regards, tom lane
>>>
>>>
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