To add a new locale sort order:
- Download the required CLDR locale file from cldr.unicode.org.
- Convert the downloaded sort order table to the binary data format
used by libqdb_cldr.so.
See “Converting CLDR POSIX files” below.
- Configure your application to use the new sort order.
Converting CLDR POSIX files
Use the mkcldr utility to convert CLDR POSIX files to binary files suitable for the libqdb_cdlr.so. For example, the following example converts the file for German used in Switzerland:
$ cd cldr-1.4.1/posix
$ mkcldr -c UTF-8.cm de_CH.UTF-8.src /etc/cldr/de_CH
Note:
The UTF-8.cm file is simply a database that maps textual character descriptions to their Unicode value; it is used in parsing the collation information.