Not sure what version of PostgreSQL or what kind of platform you are
using, I would say this may be a bug with the locale database of your
OS. Try disable locale support of PostgreSQL.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
> Young (young(at)my-feiqi(dot)com) reports a bug with a severity of 2
> The lower the number the more severe it is.
>
> Short Description
> Chinese characters query bug.
>
> Long Description
> db=> select objectid, name from state where countryOId=39 and name='xxx' order by name;
> (Here xxx is a Chinese state word.)
>
> Then I got the outputs:
>
> objectid | name
> ----------+------
> 669 | xxx1
> 670 | xxx2
> 674 | xxx3
> 680 | xxx4
> 682 | xxx5
> 687 | xxx6
> 688 | xxx
> ...
> (12 rows)
> The names are all different in Chinese. You can see from
> the results that the answers are not an unique one. The default
> state choosed the first one. But actually it should be the one whicha's oid = 688.
>
> Sample Code
>
>
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>
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