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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: upper and UTF-8
Date
Msg-id 1280201350-sup-1392@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: upper and UTF-8  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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Excerpts from Scott Marlowe's message of lun jul 26 23:12:08 -0400 2010:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:

> > I suspect that the problem is an incorrect client_encoding setting.
>
> Yeah, OP had set lc_collate to C under the mistaken impression that
> collation controlled the character sets you could insert into the
> database.  If you create a db with lc_collate='C' then the upper only
> works on basic ascii characters near as I can tell.

Makes sense.  The code seems to say that it's lc_ctype that's important
though, see str_toupper in formatting.c.  So I think you could still set
collation to C and use a language-specific lc_ctype.

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