Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It's been suggested that we could use <wctype.h> where available.
>> However there are a bunch of issues that would have to be solved to make
>> that happen. (How do we convert between the database character encoding
>> and the wctype representation?
> How do we do it for sorting ?
We don't --- strcoll() handles it all internally.
> It seems inconsistent that we do use locale-aware sorts but not
> upper/lower.
We do have locale-aware upper/lower ... but only in single-byte
encodings. I think it works for the 7-bit-ASCII subset of multibyte
encodings, too.
regards, tom lane
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