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From: Jeremy Schneider <[email protected]>
To: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Cc: Finnerty, Jim <[email protected]>
Cc: Nasby, Jim <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Collation version tracking for macOS
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 20:40:22 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)




> On Jun 14, 2022, at 19:06, Thomas Munro <[email protected]> wrote:
> One difference would be the effect if ICU ever ships a minor library
> version update that changes the reported collversion.

If I’m reading it correctly, ICU would not change collation in major versions, as an explicit matter of policy around DUCET stability and versioning.

https://unicode.org/reports/tr10/#Stable_DUCET


> With some system of symlinks to make it all work with defaults for
> those who don't care, a libc could have
> /usr/share/locale/[email protected] etc so you could
> setlocale(LC_COLLATE, "en_US@CLDR34"), or something.  I suppose they
> don't want to promise to be able to interpret the old data in future
> releases, and, as you say, sometimes the changes are in C code, due to
> bugs or algorithm changes, not the data.

If I understand correctly, files in /usr/share/locale aren’t enough because those only have the tailoring rules, and core algorithm and data (before applying locale-specific tweaks) also change between versions. I’m pretty sure glibc works similar to UCA in this regard (albeit based on ISO 14651 and not CDLR), and the Unicode link above is a good illustration of default collation rules that underly the locale-specific tweaks.

-Jeremy

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