Did we make any progress on this?  If so, I can't find it.

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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Devrim GUNDUZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=1354
> > So it is PostgreSQL's bug or Glibc's?
> 
> Just offhand, iwchareq() seems several bricks shy of a load:
> 
>     /*
>      * if one of them is an ASCII while the other is not, then they must
>      * be different characters
>      */
>     else if ((unsigned char) *p1 < CHARMAX || (unsigned char) *p2 < CHARMAX)
>         return (0);
> 
> This test is wrong per Jakub's observation.  Also, the code right below
> that is using tolower() not towlower() on wide characters, which seems
> pretty wrong.  For that matter, towlower would be wrong too :-( because
> there is no certainty that libc's idea of wide characters is the same as
> pg_mb2wchar_with_len's.
> 
> So yeah, ILIKE looks just about completely broken for multibyte encodings.
> Maybe it would be best to pass both strings through lower() and then
> do a normal LIKE comparison?
> 
> The regexp code doesn't look better, btw, just differently broken ...
> 
>                       regards, tom lane
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