Re: Case-Insensitve Text Comparison - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Case-Insensitve Text Comparison
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Msg-id 3319.1212383935@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Case-Insensitve Text Comparison  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
Responses Re: Case-Insensitve Text Comparison  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
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"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Jun 1, 2008, at 21:08, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Okay ... according to whose locale?

> I'm using C. Of course you're correct that it depends on the locale, I  
> always forget that. But does not the Unicode standard offer up some  
> sort locale-independent case-insensitivity, so that it gets it right  
> some large percentage of the time?

Not really, and in any case the C locale completely disables any
knowledge of Unicode.  C locale knows about 7-bit ASCII and nothing
more.
        regards, tom lane


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