bug?!: lower() breaks unicode

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Hi there,

I have a database with encoding UNICODE, when I run lower() on a column with
non ascii code the code for "sharp s" gets garbled. This happens with
postgres 7.3.[234] under Linux (Debian woody and SuSE 7.2). I have made sure
that LC_CTYPE=C for the server:

 create table t ( a text, b text );
 \encoding latin1 // my terminal is latin1
 insert into t (a) values( 'Fuß' );
 update t set b = lower(a);
 select * from t;

ERROR:  Could not convert UTF-8 to ISO8859-1

Apparantly the utf-8 special codes get lowercased, as the following selects
yield different results:

 \encoding unicode // show me all
 select a from t
 select b from t

Fuà    // select a from t
fu      // select b from t, should be "fuÃ"


The JDBC code breaks even more baldy.

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 9
      at org.postgresql.core.Encoding.decodeUTF8(Encoding.java:254)

- From the release docs of 7.4 it does not seems that this issue has not been
adressed. The database has been initialized to "de_DE@euro", but this
shouldn't matter, should it?

Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards
    Holger Klawitter
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