Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> correct utf-8 byte sequence is 0xd18231, so it looks like we call
>> tolower() somewhere on parts of multibyte characters, and it does the
>> same as isspace() - it interprets it's argument as wide character, and
>> converts it.
>
> Indeed, and I am certainly wondering why we should not just say that
> you've got a broken locale definition there.  There is absolutely no
> doubt that the ctype.h functions are defined to work on char, not
> wchar.

Agreed, but such corruption indicates that there is non-multibyte-safe
(octet-wise) case conversion somewhere, at best (with fully working
locale) it will cause case conversion to do nothing instead of actual
conversion.

> They have no business mangling high-bit-set bytes in a multibyte
> encoding.

-- 
WBR, Victor V. Snezhko
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