Enabling norwegian sorting rules in PostgreSQL?

Sten Daniel Soersdal netslists at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 07:26:46 PDT 2007


Ivan Voras wrote:
> Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know how to enable norwegian sorting rules for PostgreSQL 
>> (8.2.4) on FreeBSD 6.x ?
>>
>> I've tried just about everything i can think of, but the extra three 
>> letters just wont be sorted right.
> 
> You'll probably need the ICU patch for PostgreSQL, which is 
> unfortunately only available for 8.1.x - maybe you can bug the developer 
> to provide it for newer versions of PostgreSQL.
> 

Actually, i tried that and that didn't help at all.
Granted that was with UTF-8.

I came across an old open PR (51920) that adds Norwegian Collate 
(ISO8859-1 + ISO8859-15) support to FreeBSD. Now my console and my 
postgresql sorts correctly. I just hope someone would commit this 
support to the tree.
The LATIN-1 / la_LN.ISO8859-1 collate is not right for norwegian alphabet.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/51920

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Sten Daniel Soersdal


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