From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T00:14:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, Unicode - ever?

On 13/01/06, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski <shot@shot.pl> wrote:
> 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).

Which is not really appropriate for all operating systems, and is one
of the *dumbest* things about POSIX.

> > 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

Given how much else MySQL gets wrong, why should this be trusted to be
anything close to right?

-austin
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