AW: Re: [BUGS] Turkish locale bug

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Sezai YILMAZ <sezaiy(at)ata(dot)cs(dot)hun(dot)edu(dot)tr>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: AW: Re: [BUGS] Turkish locale bug
Date: 2001-02-20 17:04:36
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA687963368207@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> > Anyway, your proposal is just fine since we haven't decoupled these
> > things farther back in the server. But eventually we should hope to have
> > SQL_ASCII and other character sets enforced in context.
>
> Now I'm confused. Are you saying that we *should* treat identifier case
> under ASCII rules only? That seems like a step backwards to me, but
> then I don't use any non-US locale myself...

I think we need to treat anything that is not quoted as US_ASCII,
iirc this is how Informix behaves. Users wanting locale aware identifiers
would need to double quote those, thus avoiding non ASCII case conversions
alltogether.

Andreas

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