| From: | Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer(at)nic(dot)fr> |
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| To: | "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" <avbidder(at)fortytwo(dot)ch> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Flag for insentive use of Postgres? |
| Date: | 2002-07-10 14:25:50 |
| Message-ID: | 20020710142550.GA16741@nic.fr |
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On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 03:44:56PM +0200,
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder(at)fortytwo(dot)ch> wrote
a message of 39 lines which said:
> Unicode *has* case-folding rules. But they are quite complex (and I'm
> not an expert - perhaps there's some problem with them?)
Many. For instance, upper('é') -> É which is technically correct but
very few Frenchmen will accept that STEPHANE (without the É) is not
the uppercase of Stéphane.
If you want user-friendliness in a application, you cannot rely on
those rules.
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