Re: UTF-8

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:09:53PM +0200, Tomi NA wrote:
>> 2006/10/12, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>:
>>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:49:06AM +0300, Martins Mihailovs wrote:
>>>> There are some misunderstood. Im using Linux 2.6.16.4, postgresql 8.1.4,
>>>> (there are one of locale:   lv_LV.utf8, for Latvian language). But if I
>>>> want do "lower", then with standard latin symbols all is ok, but with
>>>> others special symbols (like umlaut in Germany) there is problems, and
>>>> sorting is going not like alphabet but like latin alphabet and specials
>>>> symbols after. :(
>>> You don't say what your encoding is. If it not UTF-8, that's your
>>> problem...
>> Doesn't lv_LV.utf8 mean he *did* say what his encoding is?
>
> Not really. It says the encoding the system *expects*. However, if he
> actually created his database with LATIN1 encoding, it would explain
> the problems he's having.
>
> Have a nice day,


of course DB is width UNICODE....