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Re: Oracle isalpha() function?

From: Pierre Charpenay <pcharpenay_at_unilog.fr>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:00:34 +0100
Message-ID: <383EAEA2.9378BF34@unilog.fr>

Martin Ameskamp a écrit :

> ...

> I'm afraid that's not general enough - the original question referred
> explicitly to characters alphabetic in the current locale.
>
> ...
> Since there is no uppercase 'ß', nls_upper and nls_lower both return the
> same value for 'ß' (same for upper and lower without the nls).
>

...

That's true for this character, but for this exception (and may be a few others) you can
add a single test for each.

Pierre Received on Fri Nov 26 1999 - 10:00:34 CST

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