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From: Peter J. Holzer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: glibc updarte 2.31 to 2.38
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:47:25 +0200
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On 2024-09-22 09:53:58 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 9/22/24 09:48, Paul Förster wrote:
> > Then I strongly suggest that the PostgreSQL developers develop a
> > fail safe sorting mechanism that holds for generations of locale
> > changes.
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/release-17.html#RELEASE-17-HIGHLIGHTS
> 
> Add a builtin platform-independent collation provider (Jeff Davis)
> 
> This supports C and C.UTF-8 collations.

Couldn't you always use "C" collation?

The problem with that is that most people[1] want stuff ordered
according to the rules of their language and C collation is in most
cases very different.

        hp

[1] I actually have LC_COLLATE=POSIX set in the shell. But I'm not
    normal.

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