Re: [HACKERS] UTF8 and KOI8 mini-howto

Marcus,

I suspect lower,upper will not works with Unicode.
Read thread http://fts.postgresql.org/db/msg.html?mid=1070198
Tatsuo is the right person to ask.

Oleg
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Oleg Bartunov wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Markus Bertheau wrote:
>
> > а╝ а╪б╤аН, 13.06.2003, аВ 20:02, Oleg Bartunov аПаИб╙аЕб╤:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I've managed to get postgresql working with UTF8 and KOI8.
> > > Here is some mini-howto:
> > > http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/utf8.html
> >
> > select lower('а╔а╝а█а╔а╝а█а╔'); returns 'а╔а╝а█а╔а╝а█а╔' with this setup here, any
> > idea why this is the case?
>
> No idea :-) I just tested sorting and didn't even tried upper,lower.
> I suspect the problem is real. At least, perl (5.6.1) handles uc,lc function
> using special pragma 'use utf8'.
>
> Let me know if you get any success.
>
> Oleg
>
> >
> >
>
> Regards,
> Oleg
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Regards,
Oleg
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