I ran into an issue where Django sorted Ø as O, and it turns out that my Postgres database was set up with the wrong collation. Here's how to fix it.

This was posted on my previous blog on Tumblr a long time ago, but I figured I wouldn't let it disappear into the internet void, so I'm republishing it here.

How to fix it

Dump your existing database:

pg_dump your_db > your_db.sql

Rename your existing database (or delete it): psql and then

ALTER DATABASE your_db RENAME TO your_db_backup;

Create a new database:

createdb your_db –lc-collate=nb_NO.UTF-8 –lc-ctype=nb_NO.UTF-8 -T template0

Reimport your dump: psql your_db < your_db.sql

And you're done!