Re: Japanese words not distinguished

> Harry Mantheakis wrote:
> >>Correct. The lesson is, never use locale support for Asian languages
> >>and multibyte encodings including UTF-8.
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your reply - much appreciated.
> >
> > I'm now concerned if and how this will affect ORDER BY query results (and
> > other functions) with respect to Latin-1 names and words.
> >
> > I think I'll have to suck it and see, and then post my results - but that
> > won't be until after this next week-end.
>
> C locale and en_* locales give different ordering (at least under Linux).
> The en_* ordering is case insensitive, and the C locale ordering is case
> sensitive because it is simply comparing the ASCII codes.

You could use lower/upper to get case insensitive ordering with C locale.
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Tatsuo Ishii