Latvian language & upper & lower

Started by Lauris Bukshisover 22 years ago3 messages
#1Lauris Bukshis
lafriks@hello.lv

I have postgresql 7.3.2 on Mandrake 9.1.

pg_controldata returns:
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? :)

Thanx anyway :)
Lafriks

#2Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Lauris Bukshis (#1)
Re: Latvian language & upper & lower

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.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net

#3Tatsuo Ishii
t-ishii@sra.co.jp
In reply to: Peter Eisentraut (#2)
Re: Latvian language & upper & lower

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