Hi I have a problem with locale on windows. postgresql 8.4. this does not work as expected: filip=# select 'A' ~ '\w', 'Ą' ~ '\w'; ?column? | ?column? ----------+---------- t | f (1 row) -- investigating postgres settings: filip=# select name, setting, context, source, boot_val, reset_val from pg_settings where name ~* '(lc|encoding|locale|char|text|version)'; name | setting | context | source | boot_val | reset_val ----------------------------+-------------------+-----------+--------------------+-------------------+------------------- client_encoding | win1250 | user | session | SQL_ASCII | UTF8 default_text_search_config | pg_catalog.simple | user | configuration file | pg_catalog.simple | pg_catalog.simple lc_collate | Polish, Poland | internal | override | C | Polish, Poland lc_ctype | Polish, Poland | internal | override | C | Polish, Poland lc_messages | Polish, Poland | superuser | configuration file | | Polish, Poland lc_monetary | Polish, Poland | user | configuration file | C | Polish, Poland lc_numeric | Polish, Poland | user | configuration file | C | Polish, Poland lc_time | Polish, Poland | user | configuration file | C | Polish, Poland server_encoding | UTF8 | internal | override | SQL_ASCII | UTF8 server_version | 8.4.2 | internal | default | 8.4.2 | 8.4.2 server_version_num | 80402 | internal | default | 80402 | 80402 (11 rows) -- and database settings: filip=# select * from pg_database where datname='filip'; -[ RECORD 1 ]-+--------------- datname | filip datdba | 2650623 encoding | 6 datcollate | Polish, Poland datctype | Polish, Poland datistemplate | f datallowconn | t datconnlimit | -1 datlastsysoid | 11563 datfrozenxid | 649 dattablespace | 1663 datconfig | datacl | -- Filip Rembiałkowski JID,mailto:filip.rembialkowski@xxxxxxxxx http://filip.rembialkowski.net/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general