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.
-----Original Message----- From: Kathy zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Tom Lane; Tim Edwards; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Sorting Problem This brings up another question: Say initdb with en_US locale, and we have localized strings for different languages store in the db. 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 Dennis Gearon wrote: > Danke, Spacibo, gracias, thanks. > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Dennis Gearon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> 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? >> >> >> >> 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 >> > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings -- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
