| Bug #21768 | Kunyomi sort/collation for Japanese characters | ||
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| Submitted: | 22 Aug 2006 4:34 | Modified: | 28 Aug 2006 9:27 |
| Reporter: | Jacob Levine | Email Updates: | |
| Status: | Verified | Impact on me: | |
| Category: | MySQL Server: Charsets | Severity: | S4 (Feature request) |
| Version: | 4.1.12-nt | OS: | Any |
| Assigned to: | Assigned Account | CPU Architecture: | Any |
| Tags: | collation, japanese, kunyomi, onyomi, sort, yomi | ||
[28 Aug 2006 9:27]
Valeriy Kravchuk
Thank you for a reasonable feature request.

Description: I'm trying to perform a sort in MySQL on Japanese text. My field is using the SJIS character set and the default "sjis_japanese_ci" collation. I have also tried the "sjis_bin" collation without seeing any change. In my version of MySQL no other collations for the SJIS character set are available. When I sort on this field (using "ORDER BY"), the query returns data sorted in the "onyomi" ("音読み") order based on Chinese readings of the Japanese characters when I want it to use the "kunyomi" ("訓読み") readings which are based on Japanese readings of the same characters. According to Peter Gulutzan, this is not currently supported, so I am adding a feature request here, as per this thread in the forum: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?103,99763,99763#msg-99763 Thanks. How to repeat: Not a bug.