Re: SQL99 CONVERT() function - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: SQL99 CONVERT() function
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Msg-id 20020814.143112.112622202.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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In response to Re: SQL99 CONVERT() function  (Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>)
Responses Re: SQL99 CONVERT() function  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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> > I suggest using the official IANA names and replace all the non-identifier
> > characters by underscores and all upper-case letters with lower-case.
> > So it would be iso_8859_1_to_utf_8.  That way it's almost as pretty but a
> > lot more predictable.
> 
> Sounds reasonable. I'll look into this. However I have to examin each
> encodings carefully. Because:
> 
> (1) some encodings are not listed IANA (e.g. TCVN, WIN874...)
> 
> (2) some offcial IANA names seem not appropriate
>     (e.g. Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese)
> :
> :

Done. See current doc (user's guide "6.4. String Functions and
Operators" Table 6-7 "Available conversion names") how I changed the
conversion names.
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Tatsuo Ishii


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