Re: [Firebird-devel] UPPER does not work with national characters

[Dimitry S. <SD...@to...>]

On 23 Aug 2003 at 17:01, Peter Jacobi wrote:

>At some pre-historic time in Interbase development, the decision was
>taken to let the default collation of every (?) character only
>uppercase ASCII letters.

  Perhaps the developers didn't know any language but English...

>This is currently seen as unfortunate by many, and Nickolay had used
>his commit access already to hack the fix for cp1251 into current
>builds.

  And I don't know any russian developer who would blame him for this 
action.

   SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.