Re: BUG #4342: upper, lower, initcap do not work with umlaute?

On Aug 6, 4:48=A0pm, kaeptn.hadd...@gmail.com ("paull") wrote:
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference: =A0 =A0 =A04342
> Logged by: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0paull
> Email address: =A0 =A0 =A0kaeptn.hadd...@gmail.com
> PostgreSQL version: 8.2? not sure
> Operating system: =A0 ubuntu
> Description: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0upper, lower, initcap do not work with umlaut=
e?
> Details:
>
> Hello
>
> I suspect this is no news, but then again, maybe noone ever bothered to
> report?
>
> I suspect that pgsql functions upper, lower and initcap do not support
> umlaute. If I query in phppgadmin like this:
>
> select
> initcap('xxx'),upper('xxx'),initcap('=F6=D6=F6=D6=E4=C4=E4=C4=E4'),upper(=
'=F6=D6=F6=D6=E4=AD
> =E4=C4=E4')
>
> the result is this:
> Xxx =A0 =A0 XXX =A0 =A0 =F6=D6=F6=D6=E4=C4=E4=C4=E4 =A0 =A0 =A0=F6=D6=F6=
=D6=E4=C4=E4=C4=E4
>
> Hope this helps you
> Best regards
>
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locale of the database should be de_DE.utf8 (if the database is with
encoding UNICODE) or de_DE in case the encoding is LATIN1.

check it with

show lc_ctype
show database_encoding

You cannot officially change the locale of the database so
theoretically you can buckup and restore the database to the correctly
initialized database.

I have managed to chenge the control file and reindex the database and
do not see any problems yet.