Re: upper and UTF-8 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: upper and UTF-8
Date
Msg-id 1280196392-sup-6027@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to upper and UTF-8  ("Benjamin Krajmalnik" <kraj@servoyant.com>)
Responses Re: upper and UTF-8  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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Excerpts from Benjamin Krajmalnik's message of lun jul 26 17:03:54 -0400 2010:
> I just used the upper(text) function on a database which is utf8 encoded
> and which has spanish text.
>
> All of the regular characters were properly converted, except for
> characters which had accents.

FWIW it works fine for me:

alvherre=# show lc_collate ;
 lc_collate
------------
 es_CL.utf8
(1 fila)

alvherre=# select upper('benjamín');
  upper
----------
 BENJAMÍN
(1 fila)



I suspect that the problem is an incorrect client_encoding setting.

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