Svend Meyland Nicolaisen wrote:

> I posted this message on Monday but nobody have posted a reply. Now I wonder
> if it is because it is because the questions were very good, very stupid, or
> because nobody understood them... ;-)

Maybe you should ask at firebird-devel as all the Unicode gurus are
there, but I'll try to answer.

> I have been reading about the UNICODE collation for UTF8 I FireBird version
> 2.0.x, and would like to clarify if I have understood it correctly by asking
> the following questions:
>
> 1) The UNICODE collation in FireBird version 2.0.x implements the UNICODE
> UCA algorithm using the Default Unicode Collation Element Table (DUCET) with
> no language or country tailoring?

AFAIK, yes.

> 2) It is not possible with version 2.0.x of FireBird to tailor the UNICODE
> collation to specific language and country requirements?

AFAIU, not without changing the source code.

> 3) It is in FireBird version 2.1.x possible to tailor the UNICODE collation
> to specific language and country requirements, using the UCI library?

AFAIK, you should be able to simply use any collation with UTF8 charset.
IIRC, I did try that some time ago and it works really nice. Why don't
you just install 2.1 and try yourself?



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