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From: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
To: Reinhard Asmus <reinhard.asmus@spdfraktion.de>
Subject: Re: german sort is wrong
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:51:06 -0500
Message-ID: <4F69967A02000025000464DC@gw.wicourts.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F689E94.2090408@spdfraktion.de>
References: <4F689E94.2090408@spdfraktion.de>

Reinhard Asmus <reinhard.asmus@spdfraktion.de> wrote:
 
> when i make a sort this is the result:
 
> [vowel with umlaut sorts equal to vowel without]
 
> in german this is wrong. what is the problem?
 
It appears to be one of three different "right" ways:
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_alphabet#Sorting
 
Is there a different collation available on your OS to sort names? 
 
-Kevin



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