Re: Locale + encoding combinations

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Locale + encoding combinations
Date: 2007-10-10 13:46:56
Message-ID: 15261.1192024016@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Are you certain that that acceptance actually represents support?
>> Have you checked that it rejects combinations involving real code
>> pages (ie, NOT 65001) that don't really work with the locale?

> It fails with ones that Microsoft have decided don't belong in my
> language group and therefore aren't installed. It accepts all the others
> I've tried, but then from the sample I've looked, they all have
> 0-9a-zA-Z in them so I guess they're all capable of handling English.

That doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. Maybe you need to make
some tests involving a non-English base locale?

regards, tom lane

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