Re: libpq Unicode support?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > We do not support UTF-16 at this time. Hopefully we will in 8.1.
>
> Oh? Who's working on it, or even interested? Was there discussion
> of adding it to TODO?
>
> I think it would be an extremely nontrivial change, which is why
> I am not pleased with making casual promises that it will appear
> soon (or indeed at all).

TODO has:

o Add support for Unicode

To fix this, the data needs to be converted to/from UTF16/UTF8
so the Win32 wcscoll() can be used, and perhaps other functions
like towupper(). However, UTF8 already works with normal
locales but provides no ordering or character set classes.

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