Hi Steve, On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:53:45PM +0000, Steve Hosgood wrote: > Would a Swedish user want to use codepage 1252 like Western European > users would?
Yes. Collation rules and character encodings are two different things. For what it is worth, MySQL implements a number of collations for Code Page 1252, which it calls "latin1". (cp1252 is a superset of ISO 8859-1 a.k.a. ISO Latin-1.) Some MySQL collations are documented at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/charset-mysql.html For cp1252, the MySQL collations include German (DIN-1 and DIN-2), Swedish/Finnish, Danish/Norwegian, Spanish, general, and binary (according to code point value). But like I said in my previous message, we could at least initially use just one generic collation (case insensitive, ignoring any diacritical marks and accents). Best regards, Marko _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
