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Collation Locales and Default Parameters

New in version 3.4.

Collation allows users to specify language-specific rules for string comparison, such as rules for lettercase and accent marks.

Behavior

Some collation locales have variants, which employ special language-specific rules. To specify a locale variant, use the following syntax:

{ "locale" : "<locale code>@collation=<variant>" }

For example, to use the unihan variant of the Chinese collation:

{ "locale" : "zh@collation=unihan" }

See the collation page for a full description of collation behavior and syntax.

Supported Languages and Locales

MongoDB’s collation feature supports the following languages. The following table lists the supported languages and the associated locales as defined by ICU Locale ID. [1]

Language Locale Variants
Afrikaans af  
Albanian sq  
Amharic am  
Arabic ar compat
Armenian hy  
Assamese as  
Azeri az search
Bengali bn  
Belarusian be  
Bengali bn traditional
Bosnian bs search
Bosnian (Cyrillic) bs_Cyrl  
Bulgarian bg  
Burmese my  
Catalan ca search
Cherokee chr  
Chinese zh
big5han
gb2312han
unihan
zhuyin
Chinese (Traditional) zh_Hant  
Croatian hr search
Czech cs search
Danish da search
Dutch nl  
Dzongkha dz  
English en  
English (United States) en_US  
English (United States, Computer) en_US_POSIX  
Esperanto eo  
Estonian et  
Ewe ee  
Faroese fo  
Filipino fil  
Finnish fi
search
traditional
French fr  
French (Canada) fr_CA  
Galician gl search
Georgian ka  
German de
search
eor
phonebook
German (Austria) de_AT phonebook
Greek el  
Gujarati gu  
Hausa ha  
Hawaiian haw  
Hebrew he search
Hindi hi  
Hungarian hu  
Icelandic is search
Igbo ig  
Inari Sami smn search
Indonesian id  
Irish ga  
Italian it  
Japanese ja unihan
Language Locale Variants
Kalaallisut kl search
Kannada kn traditional
Kazakh kk  
Khmer km  
Konkani kok  
Korean ko
search
searchjl
unihan
Kyrgyz ky  
Lakota lkt  
Lao lo  
Latvian lv  
Lingala ln phonetic
Lithuanian lt  
Lower Sorbian dsb  
Luxembourgish lb  
Macedonian mk  
Malay ms  
Malayalam ml  
Maltese mt  
Marathi mr  
Mongolian mn  
Nepali ne  
Northern Sami se search
Norwegian Bokmål nb search
Norwegian Nynorsk nn search
Oriya or  
Oromo om  
Pashto ps  
Persian fa  
Persian (Afghanistan) fa_AF  
Polish pl  
Portuguese pt  
Punjabi pa  
Romanian ro  
Russian ru  
Serbian sr  
Serbian (Latin) sr_Latn search
Sinhala si dictionary
Slovak sk search
Slovenian sl  
Spanish es
search
traditional
Swahili sw  
Swedish sv search
Tamil ta  
Telugu te  
Thai th  
Tibetan bo  
Tongan to  
Turkish tr search
Ukrainian uk  
Upper Sorbian hsb  
Urdu ur  
Uyghur ug  
Vietnamese vi traditional
Walser wae  
Welsh cy  
Yiddish yi search
Yoruba yo  
Zulu zu  

Tip

To explicitly specify simple binary comparison, specify locale value of "simple".

[1]To request support for a locale, please file a JIRA ticket with the Server project

Collation Default Parameters

A collation document contains several optional parameters in addition to the required locale parameter. Depending on which locale you use, the default parameters may be different. See the collation page for a full description of collation syntax.

The following default parameters are consistent across all locales:

  • caseLevel : false
  • strength : 3
  • numericOrdering : false
  • maxVariable : punct

The following table shows the default collation parameters which may vary across different locales:

Locale caseFirst alternate normalization backwards
af off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
sq off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
am off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ar off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ar@collation=compat off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
hy off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
as off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
az off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
az@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
be off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
bn off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
bn@collation=traditional off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
bs off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
bs@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
bs_Cyrl off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
bg off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
my off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
ca off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ca@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
chr off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
zh off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
zh@collation=big5han off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
zh@collation=gb2312han off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
zh@collation=unihan off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
zh@collation=zhuyin off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
zh_Hant off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
hr off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
hr@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
cs off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
cs@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
da upper non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
da@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
nl off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
dz off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
en off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
en_US_POSIX off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
en_US off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
eo off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
et off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ee off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
fo off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
fo@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
fil off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
fi off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
fi@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
fi@collation=traditional off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
fr off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
fr_CA off non-ignorable FALSE TRUE
gl off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
gl@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
ka off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
de off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
de@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
de@collation=phonebook off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
de@collation=eor off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
de_AT off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
de_AT@collation=phonebook off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
el off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
gu off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
ha off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
haw off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
he off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
he@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
hi off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
hu off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
is off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
is@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
ig off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
smn off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
smn@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
id off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ga off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
it off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ja off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ja@collation=unihan off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
kl off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
kl@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
kn off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
kn@collation=traditional off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
kk off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
km off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
kok off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
ko off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ko@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
ko@collation=searchjl off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
ko@collation=unihan off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ky off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
lkt off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
lo off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
lv off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ln off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ln@collation=phonetic off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
lt off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
dsb off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
lb off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
mk off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ms off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ml off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
mt upper non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
mr off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
mn off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ne off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
se off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
se@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
nb off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
nb@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
nn off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
nn@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
or off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
om off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ps off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
fa off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
fa_AF off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
pl off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
pt off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
pa off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
ro off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ru off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
sr off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
sr_Latn off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
sr_Latn@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
si off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
si@collation=dictionary off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
sk off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
sk@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
sl off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
es off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
es@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
es@collation=traditional off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
sw off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
sv off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
sv@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
ta off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
te off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
th off shifted TRUE FALSE
bo off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
to off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
tr off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
tr@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
uk off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
hsb off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ur off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
ug off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
vi off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
vi@collation=traditional off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
wae off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
cy off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE
yi off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
yi@collation=search off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
yo off non-ignorable TRUE FALSE
zu off non-ignorable FALSE FALSE