Hi Markus, I tried different types of encoding, LATIN1 to LATIN 9, still the same behavior. I read a few forums, but there I couldn't find a concrete answer for this.
So... still searching. Best regards, Andy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Markus Schaber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrei Bintintan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [SQL] upper/lower for german characters Hi, Andrei, On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:58:27 +0200 "Andrei Bintintan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi to all, I have the problem that: > select lower('MöBÜEL') or select upper('MöBÜEL') are not working well. > > I read on some forums that there is some locale setting that needs to > be done here, but could not fix this. > > I am using the ASCII encoding. By definition, ASCII does not contain any umlauts. So I would advise that, first, you switch to an umlaut capable encoding (e. G. Latin1, Latin9 or UTF-8). HTH, Markus -- markus schaber | dipl. informatiker logi-track ag | rennweg 14-16 | ch 8001 zürich phone +41-43-888 62 52 | fax +41-43-888 62 53 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.logi-track.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings