Re: Unicode support problem

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the reply -- yes, creating the en_US.utf8 locale and using
that, fixed all of my problems.

Thanks,
--Jatinder

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: 24 February 2005 17:11
To: Jatinder Sangha
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Unicode support problem

"Jatinder Sangha" <js(at)coalitiondev(dot)com> writes:
> I've setup the postgres database as follows:

> LANG=C
> initdb -E UNICODE
> createdb -E UNICODE

> I have tried setting locale/lc_ctype to C, POSIX, iso_8859_1, all
> kinds of things, and nothing seems to fix it.

You can't just pick random combinations of locale and database encoding.
Any given locale setting implies a character set encoding, and you have
to use that same encoding as the database encoding; at least if you want
encoding-dependent operations such as upper()/lower() to work. The
locale you want for Unicode (UTF8) may be named something like
"en_US.utf8". Try "locale -a" to get a list of supported locales.

regards, tom lane