Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32

From: "John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, "Tatsuo Ishii" <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32
Date: 2005-02-25 08:31:33
Message-ID: 5066E5A966339E42AA04BA10BA706AE5625C@rodrick.geeknet.com.au
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> John Hansen wrote:
> > currently, upper/lower does not work with 2+ byte unicode
> characters,
> > on any OS under the C locale.
>
> Sure it does. It's just that the defined behavior of the C
> locale is often useless in practice.

select upper('æøå');
ERROR: invalid multibyte character for locale
HINT: The server's LC_CTYPE locale is probably incompatible with the database encoding.

Consequently it seems that is does not work.

... John

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