Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
What is really required is 'character type + collation'. I've been
thinking that looking at the problem in this way may make it more
manageable and easier to contain, with the main idea being only worry
about collation type when actually performing a collation. So some
initial ideas:
- collation is a attribute of DataTypeDescriptor, not valid for non
character types, 0 for UCS_BASIC, 1 for UNICODE etc.
int getCollationType();
How do we map collations to int's? Is there some existing mechanism?
