Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix mapping of PostgreSQL encodings to Python encodings. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 06.07.2012 18:01, Jan Urbański wrote:
> There's still trouble with EUC_TW and MULE_INTERNAL which don't have
> Python equivalents. EUC-TW has been discussed in
> http://bugs.python.org/issue2066 and rejected (see
> http://bugs.python.org/issue2066#msg113731).
>
> If you use any of these encodings, you *will* get into the recursion
> trouble described eariler, just as before the path you'd get into it
> with CP1252 as your encoding.
>
> What shall we do about those? Ignore them? Document that if you're sing
> one of these encodings then PL/Python with Python 2 will be crippled and
> with Python 3 just won't work?

We could convert to UTF-8, and use the PostgreSQL functions to convert 
from UTF-8 to the server encoding. Double conversion might be slow, but 
I think it would be better than failing.

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com