Re: Patch for collation using ICU - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Palle Girgensohn
Subject Re: Patch for collation using ICU
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Msg-id 4F4C5BEE6F510EF934EED0CC@palle.girgensohn.se
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In response to Re: Patch for collation using ICU  ("John Hansen" <john@geeknet.com.au>)
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--On lördag, maj 07, 2005 23.25.15 +1000 John Hansen <john@geeknet.com.au>
wrote:

> Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>> I'm aware of that. It might help for unicode, but there are a
>> bunch of
>> other encodings. IANA has decided that utf-8 has *no*
>> aliases, hence only
>> utf-8 (with dash, but case insensitve) is accepted. Perhaps ICU is
>> fogiving, I don't remember/know, but I think we need the mappings,
>> unfortunately.
>>
>
> Here is the list of encoding names and aliases the ICU accepts as of
> 3.2:
> (it's a bit long...)
>
> UTF-8 ibm-1208 ibm-1209 ibm-5304 ibm-5305 windows-65001 cp1208

No UTF8 in there. I think that's good, charset aliases are a hassle.

/Palle



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