Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> writes: > The Unicode consortium calls our current behavior within comparisons > "deterministic comparisons" -- it's something they're not so keen on: > https://unicode.org/reports/tr10/#Deterministic_Comparison > I suggest using their terminology for our current behavior.
Hm, it's not the greatest terminology perhaps, but if they're using it then that makes it at least semi-standard. I can live with that. > FWIW, I don't think that your IEEE analogy quite works, because you're > talking about a property of a datatype. A collation is not intrinsic > to any collatable datatype. Fortunately, we're not required to agree > on what feels natural. Right, which is exactly why it'd be a bad idea to use "natural" as the name for this property ... regards, tom lane