Re: Locales and Encodings

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Locales and Encodings
Date: 2007-10-12 16:40:33
Message-ID: 28968.1192207233@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 03:28:26PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
>> I think realistically we're basically waiting for strcoll_l to become
>> standardized by POSIX so we can depend on it.

> I think we could be waiting forever then.

strcoll is only a small fraction of the problem anyway. The <ctype.h>
and <wctype.h> functions are another chunk of it, and then there's the
issues of system message spellings, LC_MONETARY info, etc etc.

regards, tom lane

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