Re: Rough draft for Unicode-aware UPPER()/LOWER()/INITCAP() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Rough draft for Unicode-aware UPPER()/LOWER()/INITCAP()
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Msg-id 200405162335.33576.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Rough draft for Unicode-aware UPPER()/LOWER()/INITCAP()  (Marko Karppinen <marko@karppinen.fi>)
Responses Re: Rough draft for Unicode-aware UPPER()/LOWER()/INITCAP()  (Marko Karppinen <marko@karppinen.fi>)
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Marko Karppinen wrote:
> I think this interaction between the locale and server_encoding is
> confusing. Is there any use case for running an incompatible mix?
> If not, would it not make sense to fetch initdb's default database
> encoding with nl_langinfo(CODESET) instead of using SQL_ASCII?

This would be fine and dandy if we had any sort of idea about what sort 
of strings nl_langinfo(CODESET) returns and how to map them to our 
encoding names.



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