From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Harald Fuchs <hf0614x@protecting.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: POSIX Regular Expression question
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 13:31:44 -0400
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Am Montag, 5. September 2005 17:40 schrieb Harald Fuchs:
>> I dunno the details of the supported encodings, but is there
>> any encoding where 'a-z' includes more or less than 26 letters?
> Well, it seems that our regexp library interprets [a-z] as exactly 26 letters,
> but that seems to be a lack of locale support rather than a feature.
ISTM that the notation should properly mean "every character that sorts
between a and z inclusive". So it's sort order dependent and thus
locale dependent --- or at least should be. The locale support in our
regexp code is definitely pretty weak at the moment.
regards, tom lane
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