Re: problem with Win1251 (Cyrillic)

Dobrena Miteva wrote:
> Dear Postgre team,
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>
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> My name is Mladen Mitev.
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> I downloaded and installed Postgre SQL 8.0.1 and I found that it did not work with Win1251 (Cyrillic). It did not
translatethe capital and small letters. 
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> These commands did not work:
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>  ILIKE
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>  lower()
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>  upper()

These are controlled by your locale defined by initdb (look for
LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE output from the command pg_controldata) _and_
the encoding you used to create the database.  For the above to work
both have to be Win1251.  Our documentation goes into detail about this.

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