utf-8 support in libc?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Mar 20, 2006, at 12:21 , Vivek Khera wrote:

> I expect that to happen.  What I'm more curious about is the  
> collating speed.  Ie, how fast are the sorting and string  
> comparison functions.   The clam here is that in *BSD these are  
> somehow not fast.  I'm not sure if that is a BSD issue or a  
> Postgres issue for not taking advantage of the BSD functions properly.

I don't think that's the issue, so much as that FreeBSD *doesn't  
support* UTF-8 collation so the database has to use its own (possibly  
slower than platform-optimized) collation libraries.

(en_US.UTF-8/LC_COLLATE is symlinked to a US-ASCII collation sequence  
which is identical to binary.  This is incorrect for UTF-8; there're  
all kinds of strange things that need to be done to sort UTF-8  
properly.)

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