Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From John Hansen
Subject Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32
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Msg-id 5066E5A966339E42AA04BA10BA706AE56298@rodrick.geeknet.com.au
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Right, they were meant as a starting point, but if you can point me to
how I can obtain the current locale, then I can fix them to cover the
remaining 15 special cases.

... John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 2:01 AM
> To: John Hansen
> Cc: Bruce Momjian; Tatsuo Ishii; mha@sollentuna.net;
> pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-hackers-win32] UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32
>
> "John Hansen" <john@geeknet.com.au> writes:
> > Look at the upper/lower I sent to the list, they should be able to
> > replace upper/lower for the utf8 encoding.... (and works
> independent
> > of locale)..
>
> I was under the impression we couldn't use these, precisely
> because they weren't locale-aware.  ("It works for most
> people" isn't good enough.)
>
> In any case, don't we need a solution that covers sorting
> (strcoll) as well as upper/lower?
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
>

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