RE: [Firebird-devel] UPPER does not work with national characters

[Claudio V. C. <cv...@us...>]

Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
> Dimitry,
>
>>> This is currently seen as unfortunate by many, and Nickolay had used
>>> his commit access already to hack the fix for cp1251 into current
>>> builds.
>>
>> And I don't know any russian developer who would blame him for this
>> action.
>
> If we'd have different collations for Russian, Ukrainian etc,
> then I'd call
> this change very questionable. E.g. which collation should be
> considered a default one for WIN1250? Hungarian? Slovakian? I think
> that's why
> UPPER uses
> binary collation by default.

Yes, it's easy to default to a non-binary collation when a charset supports
only one language. To give a western example, look at
WIN1252 or ISO8859_1, what should be the non-binary default collation??? Do
we select the collation based on number of speakers for the related
language, alphabetic precedence, number of FB users for that collation, etc?

C.