From: | "John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au> |
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To: | "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Marcus Raphelt" <marcus(at)raphelt(dot)de> |
Subject: | Re: BUG #1775: UTF8 to ISO does not convert the german "sharp s" (ß ) |
Date: | 2005-07-19 22:35:33 |
Message-ID: | 5066E5A966339E42AA04BA10BA706AE50A9388@rodrick.geeknet.com.au |
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Magnus Hagander Wrote:
> > > PostgreSQL 8.0 does not support UTF8 on Win32. You will need to
> > > convert the file before you load it into the database -
> look at for
> > > example the GNU iconv program to do this.
> >
> > PostgreSQL does not support UTF8 locales on Windows, but
> the character
> > conversion should work the same on all platforms, shouldn't it?
>
> I thought that was also handled in the locale code. But now
> that you say it, it's probably not - it should be the same.
> I'll withdraw my comment then, clearly wrong. Thanks for
> clearing that up.
Currently, it is very much so handled by the systems locale support,
hence it is handled differently depending on platform.
ICU support should make it to 8.1 I hear, which will make the bahaviour
uniform.
... John
>
>
> //Magnus
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