Re: Unicode combining characters - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Unicode combining characters
Date
Msg-id 200110121559.f9CFxfK27955@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Unicode combining characters  (Patrice Hédé <phede-ml@islande.org>)
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> * Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> [011011 22:49]:
> > 
> > Can I ask about the status of this?
> 
> I have sent a patch a few days ago solving the client-side issue (on
> the pgsql-patches mailing list) for review. I think Tatsuo said it
> looked OK, however he should confirm/infirm this.

OK, I saw the client encoding function appear today.  I assume Tatsuo
and friends will finish this up.

> Regarding the implementation of Unicode functionality (normalisation,
> collation, Unicode-aware regexes, uc/lc/tc (title-case) functions,...)
> on the server side, it's definitely something for 7.3 (though it might
> be available sooner). It will probably be just a contributed extension
> first. I'm currently making an alpha version of the project I'm
> working on in order to have sufficient "real-life" Unicode data to
> work with, and make sure the design choices make sense :)

If you would like to add some TODO items, please let me know.  Good to
document them even if you can't get to them for a while.

> BTW, I tried to find web-accessible archives of pgsql-patches, are
> there some, or should each and every discussion be followed-up on
> pgsql-hackers (even though the description for pgsql-patches includes
> discussions on patches) ?

I use:
http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/

You can discuss on patches or hackers.  I usually do patch discussion on
patches unless I need a larger audience for comments.

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