Re: lower/upper on latin2 encoding

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>
To: Laukó Péter <plauko(at)freemail(dot)hu>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: lower/upper on latin2 encoding
Date: 2002-08-22 01:15:33
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0208212108590.15511-100000@cm-lcon1-46-187.cm.vtr.net
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Laukó Péter dijo:

>
> Hi list,
> can anyone tell me why the characters with accents are not changed by lower and upper? Is it a bug, or should I configure anything else than the db encoding???

Huh, they do in my version ("developer" version). They should also work
in current stable version, AFAIK.

pg_controldata here gives amongst other things (this should be in
contrib/ in your version):

$ pg_controldata
[... some things ...]
LC_COLLATE: es(at)tradicional
LC_CTYPE: es(at)tradicional

$ psql regression -c "select upper('ñáí')"
upper
-------
ÑÁÍ
(1 row)

It should be a matter of setting the locale at initdb time.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
"Hoy es el primer dia del resto de mi vida"

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