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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Bug #676: lower(), upper(), & initcap() do not work on utf-8 chars
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Msg-id 23560.1022302566@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Bug #676: lower(), upper(), & initcap() do not work on utf-8 chars  (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org)
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pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org writes:
> The string case manipulation functions lower(), upper(), & initcap()
> have no effect on non-ASCII characters in the argument, such as æ, å,
> ø, ä, etc. ASCII chars in the argument are properly up- or down-cased.
> The database encoding is UTF-8.

lower/upper-casing is driven by locale, not encoding.

Unfortunately you didn't mention anything about your locale setup...

            regards, tom lane

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