Re: Unicode support on Win32

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Caleb wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am using Windows as a development environment (and database design),
>>and it seems that Unicode is not supported on Win32.
>>
>>
>
>Yes, the problem is that we only support UTF-8 and the Win32 collation
>routines only support UTF-16. You can actually use UTF-8 if you don't
>care about ordering of the character set, but pginstaller doesn't
>support those options --- you have to run initdb manually.
>
>
I know this is the wrong list for it, but here are some thoughts about
solutions:
1. Convert to UTF-16 - Windows give you builtin functions to do that.
2. Use another library set (ICU?)

Shachar

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