Re: Deprecate custom encoding conversions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: Deprecate custom encoding conversions
Date
Msg-id 20201203.112728.2138191168638558373.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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In response to Re: Deprecate custom encoding conversions  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> I recall a discussion in which someone explained that things are messy for
> Japanese because there's not really just one version of SJIS; there are
> several, because various groups extended the original standard in not-
> quite-compatible ways.  In turn this means that there's not really one
> well-defined conversion to/from Unicode

That's true.

> --- which is the reason why
> allowing custom conversions seemed like a good idea.  I don't know
> whether anyone over there is actually using custom conversions, but
> I'd be hesitant to just nuke the feature altogether.

By Googling I found an instance which is using CREATE CONVERSION
(Japanese article).

http://grep.blog49.fc2.com/blog-entry-87.html
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp



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