Re: list of acknowledgments for PG16

On 8/22/23 16:24, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 22.08.23 15:29, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
>>> Yeah, I've been proposing this kind of thing for many years; the
>>> problem, until not long ago, was that the tooling was unable to process
>>> non-Latin1 characters in all the output formats that we use.  But
>>> tooling has changed and the oldest platforms have disappeared, so maybe
>>> it works now; do you want to inject some Chinese, Cyrillic, Japanese
>>> names and give it a spin?  At least HTML and PDF need to work correctly.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure the PDF toolchain still fails on non-Latin1 characters.
>> At least it does the way I have it installed; maybe adding some
>> non-default dependencies would help?
>
> See here:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/f58a0973-6e06-65de-8fb8-b3b93518bc6e@2ndquadrant.com

I applied that patch, and it works for Cyrillic text, but not for
Japanese. I am trying to figure out how to make it use a secondary
font, but that might take me a while.
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Vik Fearing