[bind10-dev] Collation Sequences [was: Blog comment from BDB developer]

zhanglikun zlkzhy at gmail.com
Wed Jul 14 07:52:07 UTC 2010


> On 7/13/10 9:01 PM, Danny Mayer wrote:
> > I forgot to mention that collation sequence is important here and that
> > is usually defined when you set up the database for all schemas. You
> > need a collating sequence that works for DNSSEC and then you need to
> > worry about IDN ordering for non-ASCII character sets. That's less
> > simple and what if you have multiple character sets like US ASCII and
> > Greek or Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese?

> Michael answered:
> You store the canonical format in a "column" and use that for ordering,
> and use the other non-canonical form for actual retrieval.
> 

Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese are saved in punicode. 

Is my answer same meaning with Michael?

Likun





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