Re: International support

[Soma Interesting <dfunct@example.com>]

At 05:23 AM 2/23/2001 +0900, you wrote:
> > require PHP/Postgres to be able to interpret the data. However if I 
> compile
> > Postgres with locals support for the character set/language in question -
> > then postgres will be able to sort Japanese. Is this right?
>
>You won't get back a sort that is meaningful to most human readers
>of the data, but that's not the fault of the software.  What
>ordering are you trying to produce?

The database can't sort alphabetically even once local support for that 
character set or language is installed?

Its likely we'll want to return a list of names, for example, sorted 
alphabetically on the last name.