Oops, forgot the patch :)
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-hackers- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicolai Tufar > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 9:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: 'Tom Lane'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [HACKERS] Turkish Locale in Identifiers (contd.) > > > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Nicolai Tufar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> A possible compromise is to apply ASCII downcasing (same as in > > >> keywords.c) for 7-bit-ASCII characters, and apply tolower() only > > >> for character codes above 127. In other words > > > > > If we go this way why not make a special case only and only for 'I' > > > Character and not all 7-bit ASCII: > > > > It seems to me that that's too narrow a definition of the problem. > > I think we should state our goal as "we don't want bizarre locale > > definitions to interfere with downcasing of the basic ASCII letters". > > If we put in a special case for 'I' we will fix the known problem > > with Turkish, but what other strange locales might be out there? > > And if we don't trust tolower() for 'I', why should we trust it > > for 'A'-'Z'? > > Since nobody commented on the issue I may suggest a patch that > implements > 'I' special case solution. 'A'-'Z' ASCII-only downcasting idea was > rejected > before on basis of SQL99 compliance. I hope I would have more luck with > this > one. Because PostgreSQL just does not work with Turkish locale, and it > was > so since 7.4.0. initdb just chokes on VOID identifier and quits. Devrim > Gunduz will second me on this, I am sure. > > With my knowledge of Russian, Arabic and -to some degree- Hebrew > encodings > I claim that this patch will not break them. If someone who uses far > eastern > Encodings would also check it, I think it would be pretty safe to apply > this patch to the source. > > Thanks, > Nicolai Tufar > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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