Re: Regexp match with accented character problem

That is the case.
I have to move to use ISO encoding because I can not use 9.0 .
Thank you!

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Laslo Forro <getforum(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > It seems that accented characters are not recognized as \w.
>
> Just FYI, that's a known problem with the regex operators if you're
> using UTF8 database encoding (or more generally, any multibyte encoding,
> but UTF8 is usually the one people complain about). I don't believe
> updating to 8.4 would have fixed it for you --- maybe the reason the
> problem went away is you switched to a different encoding, such as one
> of the LATINn family?
>
> There is a tentative fix in 9.0, FWIW.
>
> regards, tom lane
>