Tom Lane wrote:
> alexander lunyov <lan@startatom.ru> writes:
>> With this i just wanted to say that lower() doesn't work at all on
>> russian unicode characters,
>
> In that case you're using the wrong locale (ie, not russian unicode).
> Check "show lc_ctype".
db=> SHOW LC_CTYPE;
lc_ctype
----------
C
(1 запись)
db=> SHOW LC_COLLATE;
lc_collate
------------
C
(1 запись)
Where can i change this? Trying to SET this parameters gives error
"parameter "lc_collate" cannot be changed"
> Or [ checks back in thread... ] maybe you're using the wrong operating
> system. Not so long ago FreeBSD didn't have Unicode locale support at
> all; I'm not sure if 6.2 has that problem but it is worth checking.
> Does it work for you to do case-insensitive russian comparisons in
> "grep", for instance?
I put to textfile 3 russian strings with different case of first char
and grep'ed them all:
# cat > textfile
Зеленая
Зеленодольская
зеленая
# grep -i зелен *
textfile:Зеленая
textfile:Зеленодольская
textfile:зеленая
So i think system is fine about unicode.
--
alexander lunyov
lan@startatom.ru
