Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> writes:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>> Yes, that's the basic idea. Mac OS X apparently provides ICU underneath
>> for programs that would like true unicode collation, but there is
>> little chance that postgresql will ever use this.
> Out of interest: Why not?
There's plenty of discussion in the archives about it, but basically
ICU would represent a pretty enormous dependency and would lock us in
to having no other backend encoding but UTF8.
The state of OS X's POSIX-spec locale support is pretty pitiful, but on
the whole I'd say if you need better UTF8 locale support you could use
another OS.
regards, tom lane