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

Tom Lane <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:01:01 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general
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"John Hansen" <[email protected]> writes:
> Look at the upper/lower I sent to the list, they should be able to
> replace upper/lower for the utf8 encoding.... (and works independent of
> locale)..

I was under the impression we couldn't use these, precisely because they
weren't locale-aware.  ("It works for most people" isn't good enough.)

In any case, don't we need a solution that covers sorting (strcoll) as
well as upper/lower?

			regards, tom lane

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