Tatsuo Ishii writes:
> > I don't think so. The sort order is independent of the character
> > encoding, and vice versa. It must be, because
>
> This seems different from SQL's CREATE COLLATION syntax.
> >From SQL99's CREATE COLLATION definition:
>
> CREATE COLLATION <collation name> FOR
> <character set specification>
> FROM <existing collation name>
> [ <pad characteristic> ]
>
> So it seems a collation depends on a character set.
I see. But that really doesn't have anything to do with reality. In
fact, it completely undermines the transparency of the character set
encoding that we're probably trying to achieve.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net