On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 09:05:04AM -0500, Vladimir Támara Patiño wrote: > I agree full Unicode support is desirable, but IMHO having 8 bits > collation is better than nothing (for example withouth it spanish > speakers have to > see ñ, á and other special symbols at the end of sorted results in > programs that support collations like PostgreSQL).
So we add 8 bit support, and then what? Whoever would want to do it properly would have to throw the 8 bit stuff out and start all over again.