Re: UPPER()/LOWER() and UTF-8

>>>>> "TL" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
   TL> Alexey Mahotkin <alexm@w-m.ru> writes:   >> I'm running Postgresql 7.3.4 with ru_RU.UTF-8 locale (with   >>
UNICODEdatabase encoding), and all is almost well, except that   >> UPPER() and LOWER() seem to ignore locale.
 
   TL> upper/lower aren't going to work desirably in any multi-byte   TL> character set encoding.  

Can you please point me at their implementation?  I do not understand
why that's impossible.
   TL> I think Peter E. is looking into what   TL> it would take to fix this for 7.5, but at present you are   TL>
goingto need to use a single-byte encoding within the server.   TL> (Nothing to stop you from using UTF-8 on the client
side  TL> though.)
 


Thanks,

--alexm