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Kim Haase commented on DERBY-4629:
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Thanks for all the great suggestions, Rick.
I will certainly add links to the collation material as you suggest. It must be
confusing to readers that the reference manual section called "Data type
assignments and comparison, sorting, and ordering" really has nothing in it
about sorting or ordering.
I'm wondering if it might be helpful to split off the "Collation examples"
section of the URL attributes topic into a separate topic and retitle it
"Examples of case-sensitive and case-insensitive string sorting"?? That would
at least add another word besides "collation" for readers to find. It seemed
too closely related to the attributes topic to split off, but it might work
better on its own.
> Explicitly document how to get case-insensitive sorts and comparisons of
> string data
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> Key: DERBY-4629
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4629
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Documentation
> Affects Versions: 10.6.1.0
> Reporter: Rick Hillegas
> Assignee: Kim Haase
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> The most frequently asked question about Derby's support for
> language-sensitive strings is this: "How do I get Derby to perform
> case-insensitive sorts and comparisons?" I think that the answer to this
> question could be figured out by a reasonably intrepid reader who understood
> a lot about Java's locale and collation support, perhaps supplemented with a
> fair amount of googling.
> If we made the answer to this question really pop out to the casual reader,
> then I think we would do a great service to our users and to developers and
> tech writers who answer questions on the community lists. Perhaps it would be
> sufficient to add a "Case-insensitive strings" section parallel to
> "Character-based collation in Derby" in the Developer's Guide.
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