From: Shot - Piotr Szotkowski <shot@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T00:00:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, Unicode - ever?

Hello.

Yohanes Santoso:

> How can you have a default collation if there is no default culture.

Do what other languages do, ask the underlying operating
system for LC_COLLATE (or ask it to sort the data by itself).

> Collating by character binary value (what ruby does) is as
> neutral a collation as it can get. Else, people would be shouting
> 'favouritism'.

No, Ruby could implement a counterpart of MySQL's
utf8_general_ci and/or utf8_unicode_ci collations:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-unicode-sets.html

Cheers,
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