RE: cyrillic sort order, ru_ru problem

If you have Informix support contract, you can ask IBM to create and compile the new locale for you. May be, they have already compiled it for other customers... You can't do it without TechSupport: Informix is nor shipping the GLS locale compiler with its products. -Alexey > > I need to create a database with cyrillic (macedonian) support. I have > manager to do it with ru_ru support and I can read/write to it no > problem. > The point is that our alphabet has diferent sort order than russian so > some sorts look the way they should not. > I have been digging a while trough the documentation and this forum but > I am still confused. > The only mk_mk string under gls directory is > $INFORMIXDIR/gls/cm3/registry > > #mk_MK.ISO8859-5 915 # 0x0393 IBM AIX locale > (os/ibm/mk_MK.ISO8859-5) > #mk_MK 915 # 0x0393 IBM_AIX locale (os/ibm/mk_MK) > > what is the meening of this. > On the other hand i have been searching trough ru_ru directory and > found out few .lco files. I assume that LC_COLLATE can/should be set > here so that every letter in the alphabet get its own "weight factor"? > Am I right or wrong about this. > Any idea how to find a workaround and solve this problem? > > 10x a lot > aleksandar sending to informix-list