AW: Re: [BUGS] UPPER and LOWER dosen't work correctly o n special caracters (umlauts)

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Thomas Lockhart'" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: AW: Re: [BUGS] UPPER and LOWER dosen't work correctly o n special caracters (umlauts)
Date: 2000-10-18 09:16:26
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA6879633680B2@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> > The Upper- and the lower function don't convert the german
> umlauts (ü.ä.ö.) but leave them in their original condition
>
> Gert (or anyone): what should the result be? I'm German-impaired, so
> you'll need to be more specific. Did you compile with locale
> turned on?
> Multi-byte character sets??

We usually use ISO8859-1 which is single byte.

> Which byte codes correspond to the lower-
> and upper-case umlaut characters???

lower --> upper
ä Ä
ö Ö
ü Ü

Current CVS does this correctly when compiled with --enable-locale,
so imho we don't have a bug here, since we can't do this sort of thing without locale.

Andreas

PS: Thomas, can you please forward to the report originator.

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