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Collation internals

Collation files may include the following elements:

•Comment lines, which are ignored by the database.

•A title line.

•A collation sequence section.

•An Encodings section.

•A Properties section.

Comment lines

In the collation file, spaces are generally ignored. Comment lines start with either the percent sign (%) or two dashes (--).

The title line

The first non-comment line must be of the form:

Collation label (name)

In this statement:

Item	Description
Collation	A required keyword.
label	The collation label, which appears in the system tables as
	SYS.SYSCOLLATION.collation_label and
	SYS.SYSINFO.default_collation. The label must contain no
	more than 10 characters, and must not be the same as one of the
	built-in collations. (In particular, do not leave the collation label
	unchanged.)
name	A descriptive term, used for documentation purposes. The name
	should contain no more than 128 characters.

For example, the Shift-JIS collation file contains the following collation line, with label SJIS and name (Japanese Shift-JIS Encoding):

Collation SJIS (Japanese Shift-JIS Encoding)

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