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Re: [HACKERS] UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32


  • From: "John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>
  • To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
  • Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, "Tatsuo Ishii" <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: [HACKERS] UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32
  • Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:31:33 +1100
  • Message-id: <5066E5A966339E42AA04BA10BA706AE5625C(at)rodrick(dot)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>

> John Hansen wrote:
> > currently, upper/lower does not work with 2+ byte unicode 
> characters, 
> > on any OS under the C locale.
> 
> Sure it does.  It's just that the defined behavior of the C 
> locale is often useless in practice.

select upper('æøå');
ERROR:  invalid multibyte character for locale
HINT:  The server's LC_CTYPE locale is probably incompatible with the database encoding.

Consequently it seems that is does not work.

... John



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