Re: Case-Insensitve Text Comparison

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Case-Insensitve Text Comparison
Date: 2008-06-02 05:18:55
Message-ID: 3319.1212383935@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Jun 1, 2008, at 21:08, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Okay ... according to whose locale?

> I'm using C. Of course you're correct that it depends on the locale, I
> always forget that. But does not the Unicode standard offer up some
> sort locale-independent case-insensitivity, so that it gets it right
> some large percentage of the time?

Not really, and in any case the C locale completely disables any
knowledge of Unicode. C locale knows about 7-bit ASCII and nothing
more.

regards, tom lane

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