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Re: Patch for collation using ICU

Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> — 2005-05-08T13:19:25Z

> > > > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 02:07:29PM +1000, John Hansen wrote:
> > > > > Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > > So Japanese(including ASCII)/UNICODE behavior is
> > > > perfectly correct
> > > > > > at this moment.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Right, so you _never_ use accented ascii characters in 
> > Japanese? 
> > > > > (like è for example, whose uppercase is È)
> > > > 
> > > > That isn't ASCII.  It's latin1 or some other ASCII extension.
> > > 
> > > Point taken...
> > > But...
> > > 
> > > If you want EUC_JP (Japanese + ASCII) then use that as your 
> > backend encoding, not UTF-8 (unicode).
> > > UTF-8 encoded databases are very useful for representing multiple 
> > > languages in the same database, but this usefulness 
> > vanishes if functions like upper/lower doesn't work correctly.
> > 
> > I'm just curious if Germany/French/Spanish mixed text can be 
> > sorted correctly. I think these languages need their own 
> > locales even with UNICODE/ICU.
> 
> No, they will not sort correctly, for that you still need the locale.

I'm confused. I thought the ICU patches is intended for using on
broken locale platforms?
--
Tatsuo Ishii