[Hsqldb-developers] Collation / Collator /

[Nils M. <nm...@us...>]

Hi

in 1.7.x I'm able to configure all columns to use a collator for
comparison through

 sql.compare_in_locale

I looked into the 1.8 code and apparently that's still possible.
What might be missing, but please correct me if I'm wrong, is the
ability to set a specific Collator to use by the database.

Since a Collator instance allows to specify setStrength() I'd
like set that up in HSQLDB as well. So either the configuration
should allow for specific configuration of collator-'parameters'
like strength or the API should allow an application that
embeds the sql engine to set a Collator specifically (prefering
the former of course)

Thanks for your consideration

Cheers
Nils