Database LATIN1 to UFT-8 (unicode) converting problem

From: "Andy" <frum(at)ar-sd(dot)net>
To: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Database LATIN1 to UFT-8 (unicode) converting problem
Date: 2006-04-25 12:51:39
Message-ID: 027501c66866$ff0999d0$0b00a8c0@mpsro.dom
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Hi to all,

We just tried to switch out database from LATIN 1 (ISO 8859-1) to UTF-8. After a few tests we found out some problems:
- the upper and lower functions does not work for all characters. Especially lower returns nothing if a umlaut is in the converted string. The umlauts are not converted at all.
- the returned rows are not correctly sorted. ö is before a and so on.

The server is a Suse 10 system. DB is Postgresql 8.0.3.

This sorting problem we had it before and it was the problem was at local system settings. Now everything is switched to UTF-8 (or it seems so).

Please advise.

Thank you,
Andy.

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