On 17.06.25 17:37, Vik Fearing wrote:
> For <fold> (which includes LOWER() and UPPER()), the text says in
> Section 6.35 GR 7.e:
>
>
> If the character set of <character factor> is UTF8, UTF16, or UTF32,
> then FR is replaced by
> Case:
> i) If the <search condition> S IS NORMALIZED evaluates to True,
> then NORMALIZE (FR)
> ii) Otherwise, FR.
>
>
> Here, FR is the result of the function and S is its argument.
>
>
> It does not appear to me that our LOWER and UPPER functions obey this
> rule, so there is a valid argument that we should continue to ignore it.
> Or, we can say that we have at least one of three compliant.
The SQL standard also says in a few other places that normalization
should be applied, and we do none of those, so this is probably not a
reason to change CASEFOLD at this point.
