@Kurt big big kudos to you and Monty! Sorry, I had no intention of being disrespectful. I’ve titled it with MySQL cause, at the moment, MySQL is the DB we have in released Ubuntu releases. Have no doubt, I will be one of biggest supporters of having MariaDB instead of MySQL in next Ubuntu releases. And we will be evaluating MariaDB as a MySQL replacement for our production services (inside Init and with our partners) from now on.

I don’t mean to pick a nit, but you should s/MySQL/MariaDB/ in the title of this post.

We have, indeed, pushed the fix into the MariaDB source, and future builds of MariaDB will offer correct sorting of Croatian and other Balkan language contractions.

The Maria project always treats the upstream MySQL project as an equal, and we always provide our patches to them for inclusion in mainline MySQL. However, the final decision as to what gets merged lies with MySQL maintainers.

If correct contraction sorting is of critical importance to your database use, I would encourage you to evaluate MariaDB during this beta cycle and switch to it when we have our final release before the end of the year.

If using MySQL instead of MariaDB is more important, I encourage you to contact the MySQL devteam and push for inclusion of the patch we have written for MariaDB.

Kako se kaže “responsive project” na hrvatskom? ;)

Sort characteristics of difference languages has never occurred to me. One of the downsides of being an American. Very interesting. Thank you for that little bit of knowledge.