On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:40:24AM +0400, alexander lunyov wrote: >> Just to clarify: lower() on both sides of a comparison >> should still work as expected on multibyte encodings ? It's >> been suggested here before. > > lower() on both sides also does not working in my case, it still search for > case-sensitive data. String in this example have first char capitalized, > and result is the same. Seems that lower() can't lower multibyte character. > > db=> select lower('Зелен'); Well, no, select my_string where lower(my_string) ~ lower(search_fragment); Does that help ? (~ does work for eg. German in my experience) Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346