Re: pl/perl and utf-8 in sql_ascii databases - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: pl/perl and utf-8 in sql_ascii databases
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Msg-id 1340311355-sup-5183@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: pl/perl and utf-8 in sql_ascii databases  (Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>)
List pgsql-hackers
Excerpts from Kyotaro HORIGUCHI's message of jue jun 21 08:02:58 -0400 2012:
>
> Ouch!
>
> > # UtfToLocal() seems to have a bug that always report illegal
> > # encoding was "UTF8" regardless of the real encoding. But
> > # plper_lc_*.(sql|out) increases if the bug is fixed.
>
> This is not a bug. The error message "invalid byte sequence for
> encoding "UTF8"" meant "invalid INPUT byte sequence as encoding
> "UTF8"" not encoding for output.. So the regtest patch covers all
> of possible patterns - UTF8 and SQL_ASCII..

Right, that confused me too for a while.

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