Re: is this a bug or I am blind?
От | Russ Brown |
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Тема | Re: is this a bug or I am blind? |
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Msg-id | op.s1v2i0hp2ilifp@localhost обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: is this a bug or I am blind? (Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>) |
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Re: is this a bug or I am blind?
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Список | pgsql-general |
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:59:48 -0600, Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 18:52, Tom Lane wrote: >> Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com> writes: >> > ... So "tyty" and "tty" could be arguably both taken as double "ty", >> > except that the official form is "tty"... but from a pronunciation >> point >> > of view they ARE equivalent in hungarian. >> >> That's fair enough, but the question is should they be taken as >> equivalent for string-comparison purposes? (English has plenty of >> cases where different letter combinations sound alike, but we don't >> consider them equal because of that. That may not be a good analogy >> though. Also, if there are cases in other locales where strcoll >> considers non-identical strings equal, the reasoning for it might be >> quite different.) > > Well, I'm not an expert on this one. In any case, hungarian has > phonetical writing as opposed to the etymological writing English has. > So in hungarian there is a 1 to 1 mapping between the sounds and the > signs used to depict them... so pronunciation is somewhat more relevant > in sorting I guess. But I'm not a linguist so I won't know for sure. > Trouble is, you can never guarantee that you're dealing with actual words. What of you're comparing someone's password that happens to contain combination of letters that act in this way? > Cheers, > Csaba. > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq -- Russ
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