How strings are sorted by LC_COLLATE specifically?

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Chang Chao <charleschung.cn@gmail.com> wrote:

How strings are sorted when LC_COLLATE = ja_JP.UTF-8.
I tried to read the documention on that,but there are just a few words,
like LC_COLLATE determines string sort order,
Is there a specific reference about this?
So I can implement an equivalent string sort function in JAVA.
because some of the sort logic is here.
Any clue will be greatly appreciated.

As far as I know, we just inherit whatever behavior the operating
system has for that collation.

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Robert Haas
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Hi,Robert.
Thanks for your reply.

As far as I looked into postgre's source,
I came to know that It seems that it uses strcoll to compare strings.
So it depends on the underlying operating system,like you said.

Charles.