Re: Collation patch's handling of wcstombs/mbstowcs is sheerest fantasy - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Collation patch's handling of wcstombs/mbstowcs is sheerest fantasy
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Msg-id 1303689407.5006.17.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Collation patch's handling of wcstombs/mbstowcs is sheerest fantasy  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On fre, 2011-04-22 at 16:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> It's possible that things are not too broken in practice, because it's
> likely that the transformations done by these functions only depend on
> the encoding indicated by LC_CTYPE, and we (try to) enforce that all
> locales used in a given database match the database encoding.  Still,
> that's a rather shaky chain of reasoning.

Yeah, that was the result I had arrived at.



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