Re: BUG #18735: Specific multibyte character in psql file path command parameter for Windows

In the Japanese version of Windows, file names are in Shift-JIS.

For sure, we need to check client_encoding.

Regards;
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Koichi Suzuki
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2024年12月6日(金) 14:44 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:

> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> >> This might mean that it'd be okay to just skip the backslash-to-slash
> >> conversion loops altogether if we think the encoding is Shift-JIS.
>
> > I suggest to not do so because majority of Shift-JIS users treat 0x5C
> > as a backslash. They understand that a 0x5C means a backslash in
> > Shift-JIS files if the files are for programming (source code) or for
> > the technical documentations and so on.
>
> Sure, we can do it that way. I think the hard part is figuring
> out whether Windows thinks the file names are in Shift-JIS.
> Do you have any idea about finding that out?
>
> regards, tom lane
>