Has this been addressed?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Victor Snezhko <snezhko@indorsoft.ru> writes:
> > My FreeBSD lists a whole heck of characters:
>
> > character 0x85 is a space
> > character 0xa0 is a space
> > character 0xaa is alphabetical
> > character 0xb5 is alphabetical
> > character 0xba is alphabetical
> > character 0xc0 is alphabetical
> > ... 0xc1-0xfe is alphabetical
> > character 0xff is alphabetical
>
> Hm. I'm still thinking that this behavior is wrong for UTF8 encoding,
> but it would be reasonable in LATINn and related encodings, so we
> probably ought to do something about it.
>
> After further thought, it's not so much that we can't tolerate
> locale-dependent behavior of isspace() in general, as that in this
> particular case we are expecting it to match the scanner's idea
> of a space: scan.l has
>
> space [ \t\n\r\f]
>
> which obviously is not locale-aware. I think we need convert_ident to
> use a plpgsql_isspace() that accepts these and only these as spaces.
> Any high-bit-set byte is part of an identifier according to scan.l's
> rules, and convert_ident must have the same behavior regardless of locale.
>
> There may be related risks in and around the other flex scanners
> ... will look.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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