Re: ICU integration

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
>> We needed a specific version that was newer than that shipped with
>> RHEL 6 (or in EPEL) iirc.
>
> Sure hope that's not true of the currently-proposed patch :-(

Looking back at my old emails, apparently ICU 5.0 and later include
ucol_strcollUTF8() which avoids the need to convert UTF-8 characters
to 16 bit before sorting. RHEL 6 has the older 4.2 version of ICU.

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