langauges, locales, regex, LIKE

If I've read everything right, in order to get:

    multiple languages on a site

with the functionality of ALL of:

    REGEX
    LIKE
    Correctly sorted text

A site would have to:

    create a cluster for every language needed
    run a separate database instance for every language
    and have the database instances each have their own port
    and use 8 bit encoding for that specific language

because:

    Sorting is fixed at cluster/directory creation per single
        database instance
    And LIKE only works on C Locale with an eight bit encoding
    and sorting (MAYBE?) works only on 8 bit encoding
    when using C Locale.

If anyone can correct me on this, I'd love to hear it.

Boy, the old LOCALE system has really got to go someday.