Hi Jonathan,

Currently, there is no way to define a default collation in a database.

Some language support is available for the XQuery Full Text feature and the full-text index structure: The options that have been used for creating the full-text index will also be applied to the optimized full-text queries [1].

I’ll have some thoughts if we can do something similar for collations. The prerequisite will be that we can detect at compile time which database will be accessed by a query (as BaseX allows you to access multiple databases in a single XQuery expression).

Hope this helps, Christian

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Indexes#Full-Text_Index

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie@gmail.com wrote:

I would like to set a default collation for a database, a collation that will be used for all queries unless the user asks for a different collation. My use case: a database in Greek will never be sensibly sorted using an English collation, and I don't want users to need to specify collations over and over.

Is this possible?

Jonathan