Re: Problem of capital case-insensitive letter with accent

Hello

On 21/01/2008, lan ping <pinglanmtl(at)yahoo(dot)ca> wrote:
> Hi, there
>
> In our database, some customers' names contain French accent like
> É,é,È,è. In one server, case-insensitive search works for capital letters.
> For example,
> SELECT lower('ÉÈ') could return éè . But the other server cannot.
>

check locales. Functions lower and upper works only with correct locales.

show all;
....
lc_collate | cs_CZ.UTF-8
...

cs_CZ is for czech and UTF-8 for utf8 encoding

Regards
Pavel Stehule
> It is very strange, as the two server use the same Fedora linux, and
> the same
> version of Postgres(8.2.4). We all use LATIN1 encoding.
>
> Could you give me a hand? Thank you very much.
>
> Lan
>
>
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