> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Lauris Bukshis wrote:
>
> > LC_COLLATE: lv_LV.UTF-8
> > LC_CTYPE: lv_LV.UTF-8
> >
> > but when making upper or lower on any text latvian symbols stays on the
> > same case. And I can't get lower and upper to work correctly :( Is there
> > any such way to get them work correctly? :)
>
> You can only expect this to work if the data in your database is in UTF-8.
> If you store them in ISO 8859-x you need to select a different locale,
> probably named lv_LV.
I think even if the data in his database is in UTF-8, upper() or
lower() won't work. See the source code.
The only workaround would something like this:
select convert(lower(convert(table_col, 'ISO-8859-x')),'ISO-8859-x','UNICODE')
from your_table;
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Tatsuo Ishii
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