questionable item in HISTORY - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject questionable item in HISTORY
Date
Msg-id 20050924.162902.64803394.ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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Responses Re: questionable item in HISTORY
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Following item in HISTORY:
    * Add support for 3 and 4-byte UTF8 characters (John Hansen)      Previously only one and two-byte UTF8 characters
weresupported.      This is particularly important for support for some Chinese      characters.
 

is wrong since 3-byte UTF-8 characters are supported since UTF-8
support has been added to PostgreSQL. Correct description would be:
    * Add support for 4-byte UTF8 characters (John Hansen)      Previously only up to three-byte UTF8 characters were
supported.     This is particularly important for support for some Chinese      characters.
 

In the mean time I wonder if we need to update UTF-8 <--> locale
encoding maps. The author of the patches stated that "This is
particularly important for support for some Chinese characters". I
have no idea what encoding he is reffering to, but I wonder if the
latest Chinense encoding standard GB18030 needs 4-byte UTF-8 mappings.
If yes, we surely need to update utf8_to_gb18030.map.

Anybody familiar with GB18030/UTF-8?
--
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
Tatsuo Ishii


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