Re: Collation rules and multi-lingual databases

NO No no, do not mess with set locale,
You will need to hack your own version of strxfrm which takes an
aragument for locale. If you mess with locale,you will corrupt the
indexes I've been told.

Greg Stark wrote:

>Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net> writes:
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>>I was thinking of INGNORING locale, since it is basically fixed for a DB for
>>long periods of time.
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>>If a table/column HAD it's own locale, that could be used,
>>but I was more interested in a function taht would allow the explicit
>>declaration of the encoding(s) to look for.
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>Indeed for my purposes that's what I'll have to do.
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>but the strxfrm function uses the current application locale, so I'll have to
>call setlocale to set it, call strxfrm, then call setlocale to set it back.
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>I fear that some implementations might do a lot of work when setlocale is
>called loading large data files and might leak memory expecting it to only be
>called once at program initialization. That would suck
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>>BTW, what is l10n
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>l10n = localization
>i18n = internationalization
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>arguably i should have said i18n actually.
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