Re: C locale versus en_US.UTF8. (Was: String comparision in PostgreSQL)

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli(dot)tech(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: C locale versus en_US.UTF8. (Was: String comparision in PostgreSQL)
Date: 2012-09-03 05:08:25
Message-ID: 1346648905.18578.3.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 10:31 -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> What is the difference between C and en_US.UTF8, please?

There are many differences, but here is a simple one:

$ (echo a; echo A; echo b; echo B) | LC_ALL=C sort
A
B
a
b
$ (echo a; echo A; echo b; echo B) | LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 sort
a
A
b
B

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