From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Harald Fuchs <hf0614x@protecting.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: POSIX Regular Expression question
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 18:15:21 +0200
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Am Montag, 5. September 2005 17:40 schrieb Harald Fuchs:
> How so? I thought character ranges are more an encoding than a locale
> issue.
That is incorrect.
> 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. There
are statements in the documentation of other regexp libraries that directly
contradict this behavior.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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