Re: Proposal: CREATE CONVERSION

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 09:59:44PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 12:58:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > What would be really cool is if we could somehow reuse the conversion
> > > modules provided by the C library and/or the iconv library. For example,
> > ^^^^^^^
> >
> > Very good point. Why use own conversion routines/tables if there is common
> > library for this?
>
> I'm not still sure about the details of conversion map used by
> iconv. Japanese users have enough trouble with the conversin between
> Unicode and othe charsets. This is because there are many variation of
> conversion maps provided by vendors. For example, the conversion map
> used for Unicode and SJIS in PostgreSQL has been carefully designed to
> minimize problems described above. Another issue is the availabilty of
> iconv among platforms. If we are sure that a particlular iconv
> conversion routine is available on all platforms and the conversion
> result is good eough, our conversion routine could be replaced by new
> one using iconv.

This is not problem if we will have some common API. You can use
current conversion tables (maps) and for example I can use iconv
on my i386/Linux.

I don't want to replace current maps if somebody needs it. I would
like to API.

I see iconv is included into glibc now.

> > I unsure with only one argument for encoding function. What if I want
> > to use one generic function for all encodings (for example as API to
> > iconv)?
>
> Use a simple wrap function.

How knows this function to/from encoding?

Karel

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