Re: Mac ordering with locales

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Pascal Cohen <pcohen@wimba.com> writes:
>> The fact is that works on Linux and win but under Mac I always get the
>> ordering with 'default' C locale (I displayed all the lc_* and all are
>> right set)
>
> Yeah, this has been complained of before, eg here
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-11/msg00047.php
> and here
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-04/msg00564.php
>
> It seems to be a deficiency in Apple's locale support.  The second
> message is interesting since it indicates that "smart" sorting is
> available somewhere/somehow under OS X, but nobody here knows how
> to get at it :-(
>
>                        regards, tom lane

Here's a "me too" report from Possible (Robert Ivens) on IRC:
http://forum.servoy.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11802


David Blewett