Re: Flag for insentive use of Postgres? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephane Bortzmeyer
Subject Re: Flag for insentive use of Postgres?
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Msg-id 20020710142550.GA16741@nic.fr
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In response to Re: Flag for insentive use of Postgres?  (Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch>)
List pgsql-general
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 03:44:56PM +0200,
 Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> wrote
 a message of 39 lines which said:

> Unicode *has* case-folding rules. But they are quite complex (and I'm
> not an expert - perhaps there's some problem with them?)

Many. For instance, upper('é') -> É which is technically correct but
very few Frenchmen will accept that STEPHANE (without the É) is not
the uppercase of Stéphane.

If you want user-friendliness in a application, you cannot rely on
those rules.

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