Re: [GENERAL] C locale + unicode

2005-01-14 Thread John Sidney-Woollett
Thanks for the info - to the point and much appreciated! John Sidney-Woollett Tom Lane wrote: John Sidney-Woollett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Do upper() and lower() only work correctly for postgres v8 UTF-8 encoded databases? (They don't seem to work on chars > standard ascii on my 7.4.6 db). Is

Re: [GENERAL] C locale + unicode

2005-01-14 Thread Tom Lane
John Sidney-Woollett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do upper() and lower() only work correctly for postgres v8 UTF-8 encoded > databases? (They don't seem to work on chars > standard ascii on my > 7.4.6 db). Is this locale or encoding specific issue? Before 8.0, they don't work on multibyte chara

Re: [GENERAL] C locale + unicode

2005-01-14 Thread John Sidney-Woollett
Tom, thanks for the info. Do upper() and lower() only work correctly for postgres v8 UTF-8 encoded databases? (They don't seem to work on chars > standard ascii on my 7.4.6 db). Is this locale or encoding specific issue? Is there likely to be a significant difference in speed between a database

Re: [GENERAL] C locale + unicode

2005-01-14 Thread Tom Lane
John Sidney-Woollett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know if it's permitted to use the 'C' locale with a UNICODE > encoded database in 7.4.6? Yes. > And will it work correctly? For suitably small values of "correctly", sure. Textual sort ordering would be by byte values, which might

[GENERAL] C locale + unicode

2005-01-14 Thread John Sidney-Woollett
Does anyone know if it's permitted to use the 'C' locale with a UNICODE encoded database in 7.4.6? And will it work correctly? Or do you have to use a en_XX.utf8 locale if you want to use unicode encoding for your databases? John Sidney-Woollett ---(end of broadcast)