Re: Issues with LC_COLLATE, across 8.3/8.4 on various platforms

From: Achilleas Mantzios <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Issues with LC_COLLATE, across 8.3/8.4 on various platforms
Date: 2010-02-03 15:05:35
Message-ID: 201002031705.36226.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com
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Στις Wednesday 03 February 2010 16:53:20 ο/η Peter Eisentraut έγραψε:
> On tis, 2010-02-02 at 17:28 +0200, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> > It seems that libc's behaviour regarding LC_COLLATE in Linux/FreeBSD
> > are two different stories, hence the seen results.
>
> The UTF-8 locales on FreeBSD and Mac OS X are pretty much broken.
>
> This is becoming a FAQ ...

This is a libc/locale combination issue. Care to elaborate?
AFAICT for my case in FreeBSD, the greek UTF locale el_GR.UTF-8 behaves as expected without problems.

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