Re: Multibyte support in oracle_compat.c

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 00:46:39 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
> To: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
> Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, eutm(at)yandex(dot)ru
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Multibyte support in oracle_compat.c
>
> Tatsuo Ishii writes:
>
> > > Functions upper,lower and initcap doesn't work with utf-8 data
>
> The backend routines use the host OS locales, so look there. On my
> machine I have several Russian locales, which seem to address the issue of
> character sets:
>
> ru_RU
> ru_RU.koi8r
> ru_RU.utf8
> ru_UA
> russian

Yeah, our character sets is a major pain for internatianlization. And the
above list is not exhaustive. I guess you are right, for the time being
you'll have to bear with it.

-s