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Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:59:31 +0100
From: Markus Schaber <schabios@logi-track.com>
To: "Andrei Bintintan" <klodoma@ar-sd.net>
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Subject: Re: [SQL] upper/lower for german characters
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Hi, Andrei,

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:58:27 +0200
"Andrei Bintintan" <klodoma@ar-sd.net> wrote:

> Hi to all, I have the problem that:=20
> select lower('M=F6B=DCEL') or select upper('M=F6B=DCEL') are not working =
well.
>=20
> I read on some forums that there is some locale setting that needs to
> be done here, but could not fix this.
>=20
> I am using the ASCII encoding.

By definition, ASCII does not contain any umlauts.

So I would advise that, first, you switch to an umlaut capable encoding
(e. G. Latin1, Latin9 or UTF-8).

HTH,
Markus

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