Re: Problem with error messages

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alexander Law <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-translators(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Walter Willmertinger <willmis(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Problem with error messages
Date: 2016-07-20 23:45:02
Message-ID: 2177748d-ff90-535c-080c-5ee0f399f4af@2ndquadrant.com
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On 7/20/16 2:34 AM, Alexander Law wrote:
> I think we shouldn't leave them with the untranslated messages, instead
> we just should TRANSLIT option of iconv.
> For example:
>
>>echo 'HINWEIS: Tabelle »mickeymouse« existiert nicht, wird übersprungen' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII
> HINWEIS: Tabelle iconv: illegal input sequence at position 17
>
> But
>
>>echo 'HINWEIS: Tabelle »mickeymouse« existiert nicht, wird übersprungen' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT
> HINWEIS: Tabelle >>mickeymouse<< existiert nicht, wird ubersprungen
>
> Is much better and still better than to show untranslated message with
> the notice about failed conversion.

Right, but we don't have that functionality in PostgreSQL. It would
have to be implemented, and the transliteration tables provided.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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