Florian Wunderlich wrote:
> - input file in encoding iso-8859-1:
>
> set client_encoding='iso-8859-1';
> select upper('ä'), lower('Ä');
>
> (note: the argument to upper is a lower case a umlaut, while the argument to
> lower is an upper case a umlaut)
>
> - database "iso" with encoding iso-8859-1,
> database "utf" with encoding utf-8,
> both in a cluster with locale=de_DE
I think this is just a case of a misconfigured server. If you choose
locale de_DE, which supports only the iso-8859-1 encoding, it is an
error to build a database with utf8 encoding -- which is why 8.3 rejects
that combination.
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