need asap: bg_BG locale for FreeBSD

Oleg Bartunov wrote:

Hi,

I'm going to Bulgaria this week to setup FreeBSD server running
postgres and would like to know if somebody has an experience
with postgres and bulgarian locale. Actually, I need
bg_BG locale for FreeBSD. interesting that searching for
subject in internet doesn't provide any information.
The only thing I found is bg_BG locale for Linux (Redhat)

I created a Swedish LC_COLLATE locale part for FreeBSD a while
back, with the specific purpose of using it with PostgreSQL,
and it was not very hard.

For sorting stuff:
Check /usr/src/share/colldef (the sorting algoritm is defined
by LC_COLLATE). I don't anything about bulgarian, though. Is it
using cyrillic characters? Try using one of the russion locales
to start with.

For character representation (LC_CTYPE), I have no experience,
but it should also be fairly easy. Maybe Bulgarian uses a
similar character set to for example Russian? You will only
need a character locale for each Check /usr/src/share/mklocale

For a complete locale, you would also need timedef
(/usr/src/share/timedef).

colldef(1) is man page to check for sorting (collate)...

mklocale(1) is for locale creation.

Good luck!
Palle

Palle,

thanks for the message. I've created bulgarian locale
from similar russian sources (I believe it's CP1251 charset).
Hope it would be ok.

Regards,
Oleg

On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Palle Girgensohn wrote:

Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:51:23 +0200
From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] need asap: bg_BG locale for FreeBSD

Oleg Bartunov wrote:

Hi,

I'm going to Bulgaria this week to setup FreeBSD server running
postgres and would like to know if somebody has an experience
with postgres and bulgarian locale. Actually, I need
bg_BG locale for FreeBSD. interesting that searching for
subject in internet doesn't provide any information.
The only thing I found is bg_BG locale for Linux (Redhat)

I created a Swedish LC_COLLATE locale part for FreeBSD a while
back, with the specific purpose of using it with PostgreSQL,
and it was not very hard.

For sorting stuff:
Check /usr/src/share/colldef (the sorting algoritm is defined
by LC_COLLATE). I don't anything about bulgarian, though. Is it
using cyrillic characters? Try using one of the russion locales
to start with.

For character representation (LC_CTYPE), I have no experience,
but it should also be fairly easy. Maybe Bulgarian uses a
similar character set to for example Russian? You will only
need a character locale for each Check /usr/src/share/mklocale

For a complete locale, you would also need timedef
(/usr/src/share/timedef).

colldef(1) is man page to check for sorting (collate)...

mklocale(1) is for locale creation.

Good luck!
Palle

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