On 10/12/21 09:31, Shaozhong SHI wrote:
> I tried initcap and found a major problem with it.
What Postgres version?
In version 12 and 14 I get:
>
> Initcap of notemachine is NoteMachine.
select initcap('notemachine');
initcap
-------------
Notemachine
>
> Initcap of Sainsbury's Bank is Sainsbury'S bank.
select initcap('Sainsbury''s Bank');
initcap
------------------
Sainsbury'S Bank
Which follows the definition here:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/functions-string.html
initcap ( text ) → text
Converts the first letter of each word to upper case and the rest to
lower case. Words are sequences of alphanumeric characters separated by
non-alphanumeric characters.
>
> This is not expected.
What is the encoding, collate, ctype for the database?
Can be found in psql using:
\l db_name
>
> Anyway to get around this problem?
>
> Regards,
>
> David
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