Re: Rough draft for Unicode-aware UPPER()/LOWER()/INITCAP()

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Marko Karppinen <marko(at)karppinen(dot)fi>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Rough draft for Unicode-aware UPPER()/LOWER()/INITCAP()
Date: 2004-05-16 21:35:33
Message-ID: 200405162335.33576.peter_e@gmx.net
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Marko Karppinen wrote:
> I think this interaction between the locale and server_encoding is
> confusing. Is there any use case for running an incompatible mix?
> If not, would it not make sense to fetch initdb's default database
> encoding with nl_langinfo(CODESET) instead of using SQL_ASCII?

This would be fine and dandy if we had any sort of idea about what sort
of strings nl_langinfo(CODESET) returns and how to map them to our
encoding names.

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