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We unloaded 40 or so databases to Sybase 11 using the "-an" flag and it preserved our legacy collation sequence of "850". However, when we use dbinit to create new databases we are unable to find a collation sequence that matches this legacy "850" collation. Neither "IBM850" nor "850LATIN1" match the sorting properties of the old "850" collation. We found a collation sequence named "internal - code page 850, multilingual" that appears to have the same sorting properties as the legacy "850" collation. Can anyone confirm that the two collations are equivalent for sorting purposes? |
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In short, yes they are. The collation called "internal" appeared in 6.0.1 and was identical to "850". According to what I can dig up, Win 3.1 and Netware versions of SA defaulted to using a collation called "internal" in some places and, due to other changes, "internal" had to be added to the "official" collation list (though as a hidden entry) rather than being generated under the covers when needed. In 10.0.0, "850" disappeared and "internal" remained. It was probably removed to eliminate duplication when that code underwent some other significant changes but I can't justify why it was "850" that was removed and not "internal". -john. |
