On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:10:53AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Mar 21, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > >But I'm ademantly against building and maintaining a special UTF-8 > >collation library just for PostgreSQL. That's just reinventing the > >wheel. There already exist cross-platform libraries to handle > >collation > >and we should work towards allowing people to use one of those... > > This would be a Good Thing[tm]. I'm starting an investigation into > this now... thanks for the info.
For quite a while now there have been patches floating around allowing PostgreSQL to use ICU for collations. I would start there... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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