From: Emi Lu <emilu@encs.concordia.ca>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Ragnar Österlund <ragoster@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: case insensitive regex clause with some latin1 characters
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:14:04 -0400
Message-ID: <4505C38C.9080108@encs.concordia.ca> (raw)
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<5785.1158003676@sss.pgh.pa.us>
My environment setup as:
show lc_ctype;
lc_ctype
-------------
fr_CA.UTF-8
(1 row)
fis=> SELECT 'Ä' ~* 'ä';
?column?
----------
f
(1 row)
fis=> SELECT 'Ä' ilike 'ä';
?column?
----------
f
(1 row)
I got the same result: false
> "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ragnar_=D6sterlund?=" <ragoster@gmail.com> writes:
>> I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm doing something wrong. I have
>> a database encoded with ISO-8859-1, aka LATIN1. When I do something
>> like:
>
>> SELECT 'Ä' ~* 'ä';
>
>> it returns false.
>
> Check the database's locale setting (LC_CTYPE). It has to be one that
> expects LATIN1 encoding.
>
> The current regex code is generally not able to deal with locale-specific
> behaviors in UTF8 encoding, but it should work for single-byte encodings
> as long as you've got the locale setting right.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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