Re: Chinese GB18030 support is implemented!

Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

>>Hello,
>>
>>As postgresql is widely used in the world,many Chinese users are looking
>>forward to use such a high performanced database management
>>system.However since the Chinese new codepage standard GB18030 is not
>>completely supported,postgresql is limitted to be used in China.
>>
>>Now I have managed to implement the GB18030 support upon the latest
>>version,so the following functions are added after the patches are added.
>>
>>-Chinese GB18030 encoding is available on front-end side,while on
>>backend side,EUC_CN or MIC is used.
>>-Encoding convertion between MIC and GB18030 is implement.
>>-GB18030 locale support is available on front-end side.
>>-GB18030 locale test is added.
>>
>>Any help for testing with these patches and sugguestions for GB18030
>>support are greatly appreciated.
>>
>
>In your patches I found conversion functions between UTF-8 and GB18030
>using the same mapping for EUC_CN. I don't know the details of GB18030
>but I could guess that the mapping for EUC_CN might not work with
>GB18030. If so, what do you intend to add these function?
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>Tatsuo Ishii
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Now conversion between UTF-8 and GB18030 is implemented.

Regards,
Bill

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