Set your LANGID to FRA (to match I assume your CCSID of 297 given your codepoints) and sort sequence to *LANGIDUNQ. This will approximate the order you have in your list. I say approximate due to ê collating after é and è in my quick test. You could create your own table to sort in your desired order though (or find a more appropriate LANGID).
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--- On Thu, 1/8/09, David FOXWELL <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: David FOXWELL <David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Sorting characters with accents
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 8:11 AM
Have I a chance in hell of getting this order : ?
a 81
à 7C
c 83
ç E0
e 85
ê 52
é C0
è D0
-----Message d'origine-----
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De la part de Vern Hamberg
Envoyé : jeudi 8 janvier 2009 14:49
À : Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Objet : Re: Sorting characters with accents
Here's what I see -
The first sort is done according to the actual hex value of the character in AZ
- notice that it is in order by the hex numeric value - numbers come before
letters - the order is 0123456789ABCDEF.
Now the second sort is done according to the character representation of the
hex value - so letters come before numbers, in the normal EBCDIC order. Letters
before numbers.
In embedded SQL you can set the sort sequence - set option srtseq=*JOB or *HEX
or *JOB or *JOBRUN or *LANGIDSHR or *LANGIDUNQ - you can even name a sort table.
This is an option you set at the top of the source code and applies to
everything in a single code unit - so if you need both case-sensitive and
case-insensitive options, you have to do it with
2 modules - a great case for ILE!!
Eh?
Vern
David FOXWELL wrote:
Hi,
With this request : SELECT AZ , hex( AZ ) FROM az ORDER BY AZ
I'm getting
AZ HEX ( AZ )
ê 52
à 7C
a 81
c 83
e 85
é C0
è D0
ç E0
If I use ORDER BY hex(AZ)
I get
AZ HEX ( AZ )
é C0
è D0
ç E0
ê 52
à 7C
a 81
c 83
e 85
Can anyone tell me how the sorting works?
Thanks
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