Re: upper/lower for german characters - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Markus Schaber
Subject Re: upper/lower for german characters
Date
Msg-id 20041109185931.460fb4da@kingfisher.intern.logi-track.com
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In response to upper/lower for german characters  ("Andrei Bintintan" <klodoma@ar-sd.net>)
List pgsql-sql
Hi, Andrei,

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:58:27 +0200
"Andrei Bintintan" <klodoma@ar-sd.net> wrote:

> Hi to all, I have the problem that:
> select lower('MöBÜEL') or select upper('MöBÜEL') are not working well.
>
> I read on some forums that there is some locale setting that needs to
> be done here, but could not fix this.
>
> I am using the ASCII encoding.

By definition, ASCII does not contain any umlauts.

So I would advise that, first, you switch to an umlaut capable encoding
(e. G. Latin1, Latin9 or UTF-8).

HTH,
Markus

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