Re: PostgreSQL

I think if Postgres were to be completely UTF8 compatible, and as the default configuration, we'd do a lot better against 'the others', and take more of Oracle's market.

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Well, I have no mention of this problem in the TODO list, so I would
> like to get a good description of why it isn't working.
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> Looking at the code, I see upper() is defined in oracle_compat.c (you
> would think it would be more standard), and it calls toupper(), so it
> probably works on single-bytes encodings, but not multi-byte ones. Is
> this correct? is there a way to do multi-byte toupper? Perhaps
> converting to wide characters and calling towupper()?
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> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
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>>On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>>Not sure. I thought it would work.
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>>No, it doesn't works. Several people already complained about bad
>>unicode support. I recall Tatsuo comment some piece of code.
>>I have a little page http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/utf8.html
>>about my experience with UTF8 and cyrillic.
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>>>Eugeny Balakhonov wrote:
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>>>>Hello, all!
>>>>
>>>>I have a good question for PostgreSQL FAQ.
>>>>
>>>>How to use string functions (like UPPER()/LOWER()) for non-latin strings?
>>>>Why UPPER() function doesn't work with my UNICODE PostgreSQL database which contains non-latin characters (like cyrillic)?
>>>>How to make case insensetive search by text field which contains non-latin characters?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for your answers!
>>>>
>>>>Best regards
>>>>Eugeny
>>>
>>>
>> Regards,
>> Oleg
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