Re: What's a good default encoding?

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:10:53AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> On Mar 21, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>
> >But I'm ademantly against building and maintaining a special UTF-8
> >collation library just for PostgreSQL. That's just reinventing the
> >wheel. There already exist cross-platform libraries to handle
> >collation
> >and we should work towards allowing people to use one of those...
>
> This would be a Good Thing[tm]. I'm starting an investigation into
> this now... thanks for the info.

For quite a while now there have been patches floating around allowing
PostgreSQL to use ICU for collations. I would start there...

Have a nice day,
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