Re: Locale and multibyte support in 7.1

On 13 Dec 2000, Anatoly K. Lasareff wrote:

> Date: 13 Dec 2000 14:06:16 +0300
> From: "Anatoly K. Lasareff" <tolik(at)aaanet(dot)ru>
> To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [HACKERS] Locale and multibyte support in 7.1
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I download, configure and install postgresql-7.1beta1 _exactly_ the
> same way as my previous version - 7.0.2:
>
>
>
> ./configure --enable-multibyte=KOI8 --enable-locale
> gmake
> gmake install
>
> initdb
>

You need to do

initb -E KOI8

and setup environment properly
Let me know if you still have a problem

Regards,
Oleg
>
>
> But it seems to me locale support gone out. In particulary
>
> select upper('Русский текст - Russian text');
>
> (first two words are russian in lowercase in KOI8 encoding) don't give
> uppercase russian text - russian letters don't change. But when I do
> the _same_ steps with 7.0.2 - all is OK. May anyone help me? I work
> under FreeBSD 4.0.
>
> --
> Anatoly K. Lasareff Email: tolik(at)aaanet(dot)ru
> http://tolikus.hq.aaanet.ru:8080 Phone: (8632)-710071
>

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