Re: sort order (ORDER BY) hu_HU.UTF-8 locale with UTF-8 encoding is not working correctly on FreeBSD

Adam PAPAI <adam(dot)papai(at)bsdsupportservice(dot)hu> writes:
> [ hu_HU.UTF-8 locale doesn't sort as expected on ]
> FreeBSD titanium 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49
> UTC 2010 root(at)mason(dot)cse(dot)buffalo(dot)edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

Do you get the expected sort ordering from the "sort" command either?
I'm betting not. This is not something Postgres controls -- we just
rely on the results of strcoll().

I don't know the state of affairs on FreeBSD for sure, but I do know
that the UTF-8 locales are fairly broken on Mac OS X, which is a BSD
derived platform too. It looks like nobody in BSD-land has bothered to
put in the work to make multibyte characters sort properly.

You might have better luck with hu_HU using a suitable LATINn character
set instead of UTF8. If that still doesn't do what you want, you might
have no choice but to move off BSD :-(

regards, tom lane