From: | tony <tony(at)animaproductions(dot)com> |
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To: | Peter Pilsl <pilsl(at)goldfisch(dot)at> |
Cc: | postgres mailinglist <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: lower does not handle german umlaut |
Date: | 2001-11-14 09:06:51 |
Message-ID: | 1005728811.22347.40.camel@tonux |
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On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 18:12, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Pilsl <pilsl(at)goldfisch(dot)at> writes:
> > If I perform a select lower() on uppercased german umlauts, these wont be
> > converted to lowercase.
>
> AFAIK this should work if (a) the system was built with --enable-locale
> and (b) you are running it in an appropriate locale setting. The
> SQL lower() function just invokes the C library's tolower() conversion
> routine, so if it doesn't work your beef is with tolower() ...
try select to_ascii()
I use it for French
Cheers
Tony Grant
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