Clarify documentation for the initcap function

This commit documents differences in the definition of word separators for
the initcap function between libc and ICU locale providers.
Backpatch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/804cc10ef95d4d3b298e76b181fd9437%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Oleg Tselebrovskiy <o.tselebrovskiy@postgrespro.ru>
Backpatch-through: 13
pull/236/head
Alexander Korotkov 2 months ago
parent 4bc62b8684
commit c2c2c7e225
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      doc/src/sgml/func.sgml

@ -3148,8 +3148,11 @@ SELECT NOT(ROW(table.*) IS NOT NULL) FROM TABLE; -- detect at least one null in
</para>
<para>
Converts the first letter of each word to upper case and the
rest to lower case. Words are sequences of alphanumeric
characters separated by non-alphanumeric characters.
rest to lower case. When using the <literal>libc</literal> locale
provider, words are sequences of alphanumeric characters separated
by non-alphanumeric characters; when using the ICU locale provider,
words are separated according to
<ulink url="https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Word_Boundaries">Unicode Standard Annex #29</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
<literal>initcap('hi THOMAS')</literal>

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