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From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Eyal Wilde <eyal@impactsoft.co.il>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: a strange order by behavior
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:01:46 +0200
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Hello Peter


> Pavel suggested using a collation of ucs_basic, but I get an error when I
> try that on linux:
> $ createdb -U u1 --lc-collate=ucs_basic -E UTF-8 test
> createdb: database creation failed: ERROR:  invalid locale name ucs_basic

isn't this a bug in collations?

Regards

Pavel

> I was able to create the db with --lc_collate=C and get case-sensitive
> sorting that treats spaces 'correctly,' but I have no idea how reliable that
> is with multibyte characters and it almost certainly doesn't handle accented



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