Tom Lane wrote: > Ara Anjargolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Am I mistaken, or was multi-language support for > > upper(), lower() and friends recently added to 7.5? > > I fixed upper/lower so that they would work on multi-byte character set > encodings, given that the platform supports the <wctype.h> functions > towupper, towlower, etc. This means they can work on Unicode (UTF-8) > data. However, this doesn't do anything to improve the fundamental > issue that we are dependent on the C library's API for locale-specific > behavior, and that that API does *not* easily support dealing with > multiple locales at once. See the nearby "unicode and sorting" thread.
OK, I marked the item as done. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
