questionable item in HISTORY

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: questionable item in HISTORY
Date: 2005-09-24 07:29:02
Message-ID: 20050924.162902.64803394.ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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Following item in HISTORY:

* Add support for 3 and 4-byte UTF8 characters (John Hansen)
Previously only one and two-byte UTF8 characters were supported.
This is particularly important for support for some Chinese
characters.

is wrong since 3-byte UTF-8 characters are supported since UTF-8
support has been added to PostgreSQL. Correct description would be:

* Add support for 4-byte UTF8 characters (John Hansen)
Previously only up to three-byte UTF8 characters were supported.
This is particularly important for support for some Chinese
characters.

In the mean time I wonder if we need to update UTF-8 <--> locale
encoding maps. The author of the patches stated that "This is
particularly important for support for some Chinese characters". I
have no idea what encoding he is reffering to, but I wonder if the
latest Chinense encoding standard GB18030 needs 4-byte UTF-8 mappings.
If yes, we surely need to update utf8_to_gb18030.map.

Anybody familiar with GB18030/UTF-8?
--
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
Tatsuo Ishii

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