Re: A rough roadmap for internationalization fixes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kurt Roeckx
Subject Re: A rough roadmap for internationalization fixes
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Msg-id 20031126191031.GA16394@ping.be
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In response to Re: A rough roadmap for internationalization fixes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:19:05PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> UCS-2 is impractical without some *extremely* wide-ranging changes in
> the backend.  To take just the most obvious point, doesn't it require
> allowing embedded zero bytes in text strings?

If you're going to use unicode in the rest of the backend, you'll
have to be able to deal with them anyway.  You can't use normal C
string functions.


Kurt



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