Re: russian case-insensitive regexp search not working

Tom Lane wrote:
> alexander lunyov <lan(at)startatom(dot)ru> writes:
>> With this i just wanted to say that lower() doesn't work at all on
>> russian unicode characters,
>
> In that case you're using the wrong locale (ie, not russian unicode).
> Check "show lc_ctype".

db=> SHOW LC_CTYPE;
lc_ctype
----------
C
(1 запись)

db=> SHOW LC_COLLATE;
lc_collate
------------
C
(1 запись)

Where can i change this? Trying to SET this parameters gives error
"parameter "lc_collate" cannot be changed"

> Or [ checks back in thread... ] maybe you're using the wrong operating
> system. Not so long ago FreeBSD didn't have Unicode locale support at
> all; I'm not sure if 6.2 has that problem but it is worth checking.
> Does it work for you to do case-insensitive russian comparisons in
> "grep", for instance?

I put to textfile 3 russian strings with different case of first char
and grep'ed them all:

# cat > textfile
Зеленая
Зеленодольская
зеленая
# grep -i зелен *
textfile:Зеленая
textfile:Зеленодольская
textfile:зеленая

So i think system is fine about unicode.

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alexander lunyov
lan(at)startatom(dot)ru