Re: Locales and Encodings - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Locales and Encodings
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Msg-id 28968.1192207233@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Locales and Encodings  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 03:28:26PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
>> I think realistically we're basically waiting for strcoll_l to become
>> standardized by POSIX so we can depend on it.

> I think we could be waiting forever then.

strcoll is only a small fraction of the problem anyway.  The <ctype.h>
and <wctype.h> functions are another chunk of it, and then there's the
issues of system message spellings, LC_MONETARY info, etc etc.
        regards, tom lane


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