Geza:
>  Specifying collation
>  order for strings is the first step to internationalization. Being Europe a
>  huge and linguistically not homogenous market, RT should adopt
>  a "plugin"-style localization: the 'locale object seems to be a right
>  place to this, i.e. putting custom collation sequences there

It's worth someone from RT taking a look at how MySQL handles adding new 
character sets and collating sequences -- it's pretty complete.

Although it's worth pointing out that they don't handle all the subtleties 
needed across Europe. One tiny example. German names in phone books may have 
a different collating sequence to words in a dictionary, and Austrian phone 
books use a different ordering to German ones.

Useful Mysql reference:

http://www.unixtech.be/docs/mysql/manual_Server.html#String_collating

Sunanda.
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