"Herve LEFEBVRE" <herve.lefebvre@bull.net> writes:
> The french opening and closing quotes ( char iso 00AB and 00BB ) are
> considered by the parser as alpha chars rather than punctuation chars (and
> so as space symbol).
That would suggest that you're using the wrong locale setting.
You did not say what you're using, though.
Another possibility is that the locale assumes a different encoding
than you're using in the database --- I don't remember if 8.3.x tries
to prevent a mismatch on that.
regards, tom lane
