On Jun 1, 2008, at 22:18, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.
And the locale can only be set by initdb?
I don't suppose that there are any collations that sort and index case-
insensitively, are there? I don't see anything suggestive in `locale -
a`…
Thanks,
David
