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From: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
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Subject: Re: Issues with LC_COLLATE, across 8.3/8.4 on various platforms
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:05:35 +0200
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=CE=A3=CF=84=CE=B9=CF=82 Wednesday 03 February 2010 16:53:20 =CE=BF/=CE=B7 =
Peter Eisentraut =CE=AD=CE=B3=CF=81=CE=B1=CF=88=CE=B5:
> 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.
>=20
> The UTF-8 locales on FreeBSD and Mac OS X are pretty much broken.
>=20
> 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.

>=20
>=20



=2D-=20
Achilleas Mantzios