Re: Database LATIN1 to UFT-8 (unicode) converting problem SOLVED

["Andy" <frum@xxxxxxxxx>]

I found a solution: I re-run initdb with Unicode encoding and now seems to work fine.

 

I cannot figure out why did this happen, or does the initdb encoding affects all the databases or the db encoding is not enough to be specified?

 

Andy.

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Andy

To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:51 PM

Subject: [ADMIN] Database LATIN1 to UFT-8 (unicode) converting problem

Hi to all,

 

We just tried to switch out database from LATIN 1 (ISO 8859-1) to UTF-8. After a few tests we found out some problems:

 - the upper and lower functions does not work for all characters. Especially lower returns nothing if a umlaut is in the converted string. The umlauts are not converted at all.

- the returned rows are not correctly sorted. ö is before a and so on.

 

The server is a Suse 10 system. DB is Postgresql 8.0.3.

 

This sorting problem we had it before and it was the problem was at local system settings. Now everything is switched to UTF-8 (or it seems so).

 

Please advise.

 

Thank you,

Andy.