Re: BUG #18735: Specific multibyte character in psql file path command parameter for Windows - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #18735: Specific multibyte character in psql file path command parameter for Windows
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Msg-id 2750622.1733463850@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #18735: Specific multibyte character in psql file path command parameter for Windows  (Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: BUG #18735: Specific multibyte character in psql file path command parameter for Windows
Re: BUG #18735: Specific multibyte character in psql file path command parameter for Windows
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Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> writes:
>> This might mean that it'd be okay to just skip the backslash-to-slash
>> conversion loops altogether if we think the encoding is Shift-JIS.

> I suggest to not do so because majority of Shift-JIS users treat 0x5C
> as a backslash. They understand that a 0x5C means a backslash in
> Shift-JIS files if the files are for programming (source code) or for
> the technical documentations and so on.

Sure, we can do it that way.  I think the hard part is figuring
out whether Windows thinks the file names are in Shift-JIS.
Do you have any idea about finding that out?

            regards, tom lane



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